Cavicchioli Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro Amabile

Liveliness, cheerfulness and freshness. This is the heart of our Lambrusco and the people of Modena that it represents, for a pleasure that is repeated day after day.

Lambrusco Grasparossa Tre MedaglieAmabile has contrasting sour and bitter sensations with enveloping mellow hints of red and blue berries. With its special freshness, characteristic deep ruby red colour and purple tinges, this Grasparossa is an excellent wine for accompanying ciambelloni (ring-shaped cakes), dry cakes and tarts and chestnut-filled tortellini.

What is Lambrusco?

Lambrusco is the name of both a red wine grape and an Italian wine made principally from the grape. The grapes and the wine originate from four zones in Emilia-Romagna and one in Lombardy, principally around the central provinces of Modena, Parma, Reggio nell'Emilia, and Mantua. The grape has a long winemaking history with archaeologicalevidence indicating that the Etruscans cultivated the vine. In Roman times, the Lambrusco was highly valued for its productivity and highyields with Cato the Elder stating that produce of two thirds of an acre could make enough wine to fill 300 amphoras.

The most highly rated of its wines are the frothy, frizzante (slightly sparkling) red wines that are designed to be drunk young from one of the eight Lambrusco denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) regions: Colli di Parma Lambrusco, Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro, Lambrusco di Sorbara, Lambrusco Salamino di Santa Croce, Reggiano Lambrusco, Colli di Scandiano e Canossa Lambrusco, Modena Lambrusco, and Lambrusco Mantovano. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, sweet Lambrusco was the biggest selling import wine in the United States.^[4] During that time the wine was also produced in a white and rosé style made by limiting the skin contact with the must.

Whatever the origins of Lambrusco, they go back a long way. Even if only in 1300, Pier de' Crescenzi of Bologna suggested, in his treatise on agricultural, that wine could be obtained from the wild vine. Since then, Lambrusco has been indispensable. It has become the most prestigious wine, as well as the most renowned and drunk of all Italian wines throughout the world.