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Lambrusco is a sparkling wine produced in Emilia-Romagna. It has a reputation for being very food-friendly and excellent value. Lambrusco is known to be an industrial-scale production of sweet, easy-drinking, and even uninteresting sparkling wines. This is not entirely fair as there are some very fine examples of Lambrusco wine made with the same c...

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Small family-run company, Fattoria Moretto, was founded in 1971 after Antonio Altariva, the patriarch, arrived in the area from Pavullo nel Frignano in the 1960s to establish a sharecropping contract. It was his son Domenico who purchased the first properties including a house and a cellar. However, the most significant step occurred in 1991 when t...

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When you think about the wines from Emilia Romagna which wines do you think of? Personally, I think of Lambrusco. I’m not talking about the low-quality, overproduced, old-school Lambrusco from the 70’s and 80’s that set the negative image for Lambrusco that some may remember today. Lambrusco has come a long way since those days with various clones...

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When things start heating up, there's no better cocktail to cool you down than a spritz. The spritz saw its beginnings in the 1800s when the Austro-Hungarian Empire still controlled northern Italy. Rumor has it that the German soldiers couldn't hang with the Italians– finding their wine too strong. In an effort to dilute the alcohol, they added a "...

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Lambrusco went from being viewed as a commercial, red, sweet, and fizzy drink to what it truly is: an artisanal bubbly creation that can be sweet or dry and even white or rosé! Over the past 20 years or so, boutique wine shops like mine, In Vino Veritas, and restaurants focusing on quality, sought out and promoted the better Lambrusco wines. Custom...

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In the 1950s, in Rai’s first food and wine reportage, the master of Italian food and wine journalism Mario Soldati in his unforgettable “Viaggio nella valle del Po”, in search of genuine food among the people, customs, products, recipes and rituals of a rural Italy rich in culinary traditions, recounted Lambrusco, with its popular and poetic narrat...

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We’re on a food tour with Italian Culinary Adventures. At dusk, we find ourselves skittering along the rural strip of road in the Modena hinterlands in a minivan. The van doesn’t seem so mini on these narrow strips of tarmac winding serpentine around hills. Wine hills. The best hills. I’m about to continue my Lambrusco education, which started year...

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Friday July 8 2022. 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM. NYC Flatiron - 200 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010. Buy your ticket here. Part of Eataly’s Vino Camp Series, join us this month to learn all about Lambrusco! Take part in a walk-around wine tasting focused on all things Lambrusco, a historic sparkling red wine that hails from Emilia-Romagna, one of Italy's most in...

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Cantina Cooperative Riunite has added a Lambrusco to its canned Riunite wine offering in the US. The Italian group said this week that Riunite Lambrusco hits the market next month. Coinciding with the roll-out, which aims to capitalise on outdoor consumption occasions over the summer, CCR plans to run 'Reunite with Delight, a nationwide marketing a...

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Warm weather is here and so is day drinking, to be done outdoors in the sun. Look to north-central Italy for inspiration. Lambrusco — gently sparkling, low alcohol and often budget friendly — has long been Emilia-Romagna’s go-to for alfresco drinking. This season, make it yours as well. While the popularity of mass-market Lambrusco in the 1970s and...

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