Saetti may be the furthest you can get from industrial Lambrusco. Saetti is a person, not a factory (his first name is Luciano). He makes sparkling red wine from the Lambrusco strain called Salamino, found... Read More

Saetti may be the furthest you can get from industrial Lambrusco. Saetti is a person, not a factory (his first name is Luciano). He makes sparkling red wine from the Lambrusco strain called Salamino, found only in Santa Croce. His work is Champagne-like, including bottle fermentation. In fact, it's quite like Selosse's more radical followers: no sulfur, no dosage, no interventions.

It's a natural wine, but clean and pure, with black cherries framed by the gentle minerality that can be associated with the winery's limestone soils. It's a wine that seems to go back and forth from its serious side to fizzy fun.

Really, it's not all that hard. A plate of charcuterie with a bottle of Saetti and life is good.