In Tough Times, Just Drink Lambrusco and Be Happy

My case for cheap Italian sparkling red during this holiday season. Along with bottle picks and a wild lambrusco cocktail recipe named from a Pynchon novel.

Sometimes, I completely forget about wines. Sometimes for years at a clip. Take lambrusco. I used to write about lambrusco quite a bit a decade or so ago. I even wrote about how I’d mistakenly believed that lambrusco was the fizzy purple wine I’d first tasted as a 19-year-old exchange student in the Italian city of Cremona (it was actually Gutturnio). B…