03. 28. 2013

Lambrusco Love

I recently had a delicious dark glass of fizzy Opera 02 Lambrusco with my mushroom burger and fries at Sonoma in Capitol Hill. Delish. Seriously delish. Sonoma is known for its impressive Italian wine list so some may scoff at my choice of its red bubbles. Lambrusco has gotten a bad rap in the past and I have written about it here before so let’s just move on and get with the program. There are lots of delicious old school lambruscos now being imported to the US for our drinking pleasure. It’s a fantastic pizza/burger/bbq wine, it’s rustic, it’s earthy, it’s bold with lots of ripe red fruit, a touch of floral if you’re lucky, and it fizzes. I’ve yet to meet someone who doesn’t like a well made lambrusco.

This one is divine. I found it at Planet Wine, one of my favorite local wine shops, for $16. Even better. Cin Cin ragazzi.