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Remember Lambrusco? In the 1970s and 1980s, the Italian sparkling red wine was highly popular in the U.S., though it got little respect from oenophiles. The reason had to do with its sheer sweetness — it was less a wine and more like a carbonated wine cooler, a drink that was more akin to, say, cherry soda than a quality Italian sip. But these days...

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What is Lambrusco? Lambrusco is an Italian grape, used to make red wine and also the name of the wine that grape makes. The Lambrusco grape – In the Roman times, the Lambrusco grape was said to have yielded a lot and been highly valued in making wine. There are over 60 identified varieties of the Lambrusco grape throughout Italy, the main 6 are: -...

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Forget everything you think you know about Lambrusco. Everything except the phrase that famous Italian singer Luciano Ligabue sings in his hit “Lambrusco & Popcorn” from 1991, where he says, “Come here, there’s a glass from the vineyard.” Because this is the essence of Lambrusco or, rather, of the Lambruscos, as there are eight DOCs that comprise t...

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Lambrusco has long been the underdog of the Italian wine world, becoming its own worst enemy by flooding the market with treacly sweet and aggressively fizzy commercial wines in the 1970s and 1980s and creating a reputation for itself as the preferred swill of high schoolers and suburban mothers across the globe.  Over the past few decades, Lambrus...

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