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At best, it's frivolous; at worst, it's a joke those were the carefully chosen words by Jancis Robinson, when describing Lambrusco. It's cheap and cheerful Italian plonk, made on an industrial scale by giant cooperatives and churned out by the tankerload. A frothy red confection, it's essentially one up from cola, but with added alcohol.
Along with France, Italy is the world's largest wine producer, but the general perception, not without justification, has been that its wines are inexpensive and of poor quality. Too many of us are familiar with magnum size bottles of headache-inducing Soave, Valpolicella and Chianti.See the full content of this document
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Dining Style: Is There Life After Lambrusco
It is a fact that Sicily alone produces more wine than Australia, so perhaps there is an argument that Italy, by virtue of its size, has a right to make bad wine. Nevertheless, Italy can also rank among the world's finest, and Michael Palij, of Winetraders, a...
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