Ep 193: Lambrusco! An Awesome Italian Gem

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 25 June 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Lambrusco is a family of grapes & a wine made from those grapes that's usually red, fizzy & refreshing! Made in Emilia-Romagna, east of Tuscany, this ancient gem got a bad rep in the 1980s but is making a comeback! We'll tell you how to get the good stuff!

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:23.0	Well, we have a semi-controversial podcast today.
0:29.0	Not really, but only because you really don't like this wine.
0:32.6	No, this one is fine.
0:34.1	The first one was an expensive Boone's Farm.
0:39.0	You got to admit that.
0:40.2	I did not care for it, and I was appalled that it was $23. So we are talking about
0:45.4	Lambrusco today. And that was my introduction to it. You've never had that one first.
0:51.6	I'm sorry. I'm sorry it was really quite atrocious and I think that that's the thing about so what is
0:58.7	Lumbrusco first of all I'm gonna talk about what Lumbrus is, then I'm going to talk about what it was, and then I'm going to talk about my experience with it, and then we will talk about the regions and figure out what's going on here.
1:13.0	But let's lay it out first.
1:15.0	Let's lay out what Lambrousco is before we start getting into this.
1:18.0	So Lambrousco is from Italy.
1:21.0	It's Frisante, or slightly sparkling red wine made from a group of grapes. There are 60
1:29.5	Lambrusco varieties identified. 60?
1:33.0	60?
1:34.0	This is a very old grape, so it is mutated and changed and there's a lot of different types.
1:39.3	They're almost, they are certainly all related, but not all of them taste the same which is exactly
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