Cleto Chiarli Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro Centanario Secco, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Lambrusco is a brightly colored grape variety used to make sparkling red wines in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. More accurately, it is a collective term for a group of grape varieties – more than 60 Lambrusco varieties have been identified so far. Lambrusco vines are grown in several Italian wine regions, including Piedmont (Emilia-Romagna’s neighbor) and farther afield in Basilicata.
Lambrusco and its eponymous wine have an enviably high profile in the early 21st Century, largely the result of mass production for major markets, particularly the United States and northern Europe, in the 1980s. The days when Lambrusco wines were widely bottle-fermented in the ... more
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Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro wine region
Italy's northern region, Emilia-Romagna, is most famed for its Lambrusco wines. The heartland of the Lambrusco region lies between Montecchio, Gualtieri and Cavriago, extending from Reggio Emilia through Modena to Bologna and up to Mantova. Most of the vineyards sit on the flat lowlands; the soils rich in mineral salts nurture grapes that produce clean, refreshing, fragrant and dry wines. Those vineyards situated in the hilly and semi-hilly areas produce grapes that, after pressing, provide excellent olefactory notes and evanescent foam with purple hues.
The wine is made from the noble red-grape variety of the same name, which like many native Italian grapes dates back centuries (known in ancient times as vitis labrusca). It was once a wild-growing vine tamed by the Etruscans, and later the Romans greatly appreciated it for its level of productivity and high ... more
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Emilia-Romagna wine region
Emilia-Romagna is a rich, fertile region of northern Italy, and one of the country's most prolific wine regions – more than 136,000 acres (55,000ha) were under vine in 2010. At 150 miles (240km) wide, it spans almost the entire width of the northern Italian peninsula, sandwiched between Tuscany to the south, ... more
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