Lambrusco: A Turkey Day Must   

Emilia-Romagna, like so many other regions of Italy, has a long and checkered past stretching back millennia, and a truly unique cuisine and wine culture unlike anything else in the modern world. Sandwiched between Tuscany and the Marche to its south and Piedmont, Lombardy, and the Veneto on its northern border, Emilia-Romagna straddles the Italian peninsula with only the high coastal mountains of Liguria stopping it from being the only Italian wine region to have both an east and west coast.  While the stone peaks and rocky foothills of the Apennines dominate its interior, it is in the fertile plains watered by the regions many rivers where the magic of Emilia-Romagna's soil and cool, continental climate give birth to the star of the vineyards here: the Lambrusco vine.  READ MORE>