Wine · Light & sessionable
Lambrusco Secco
Chilled, fizzy red from Emilia-Romagna — the plot twist of the wine list.
How to order it: Dry (secco) styles only. Made for salumi and warm evenings.
Flavor profile
The proper serve
- Chill to 45–50°F — yes, a red, cold
- Tumbler or white glass
- Drink young and fizzy
- Pairs: salumi, pizza, parmesan
- Secco (dry) only
The story
Lambrusco descends from wild vines the Romans already knew — the name traces to labrusca, their word for the untamed grape of the hedgerows — and Emilia-Romagna has been making fizzy red from its many clones for centuries. America met it in the worst possible costume: the sweet, soda-adjacent export wave of the 1970s and 80s, when Riunite became one of the best-selling imported wines in US history and the style's reputation paid the bill. The real thing, secco, is dry, violet-scented, and frothing with purpose — engineered by long habit to cut through the richest food culture in Italy. Prosciutto, parmigiano, and salumi built this wine. The rehabilitation was always just one honest bottle away.
Adjacent pours