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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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Reggiano wine region
The Reggiano (formerly Lambrusco Reggiano) DOC was created in 1970, but has been revised on more than ten occasions since then. One of the latter revisions expanded the DOC to cover not just sparkling red Lambrusco wines, but also dry red wines made predominantly from Ancellotta and sparkling white wines.
Reggiano is one of several DOC titles of central Emilia-Romagna which base their wines on the Lambrusco grape varieties. Others include Salamino di Santa Croce, ... 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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Wine House |
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Tewksbury Fine Wine & Spirits |
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