Pizzini Lambrusco 2024
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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You’ve been lied to – Lambrusco is not just a sweet, simple, aggressively fizzy red wine. Real Lambrusco is a grape variety, encompassing a family of clones, hailing from the north of Italy in Emilia-Romagna. Here, the wines are savoury and interesting whilst retaining that refreshing sparkle. Pizzini’s exemplar takes its lead from the OG, made from one of the premium clones. It offers up aromas of black cherries and blackberry pie, with undertones of earthy sumac. At just 12.5% ABV it’s light and bright and oh so refreshing, with a light sparkle. Flavours of black fruit mingle with dried Italian herbs and a hint of chocolate. The refreshing acidity and a gentle lilt of tannin pair perfectly with an abundant grazing board.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
