By Ellen Bhang

A special bottle can change your life. Just ask Matt Mollo, co-owner of the North End wine shop The Wine Bottega. That head-turning pour for Mollo was a fizzy red lambrusco, which he had in Italy in 2010. He and his wife, Adriana, were at a salumeria in Mantova, Lombardy, across the Po River from Emilia-Romagna, the region most associated with these lightly sparkling quaffs.

On the banks of a lake, they picnicked and savored a special bottle of Fondo Bozzole "Incantabiss" ("snake charmer" in the local dialect). Mollo tracked down the producers. Soon, the two were visiting the organic farm of brothers Franco and Mario Accorsi, who grow apples and pears alongside rare varieties of lambrusco, one called ruberti.

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