- Grape
- Lambrusco
- Denomination
- Reggiano DOC
- Region
- Emilia Romagna
- ABV
- 11.5%
- Body
- Light to medium
- Drink
- Now–2027
The Lambrusco with a record no rival matches: Gambero Rosso's Tre Bicchieri 17 years running. Dry, organic Salamino from one clay vineyard, 11.5%, foaming ruby, made for salumi and ragu. UK listings from £12.30.
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What Concerto tastes like: dry Lambrusco, served cold
Medici Ermete's sheet promises strawberries, raspberries and cherries; Vivino's 781 reviews add blackberry, plum and violet. Dry, foaming, 11.5%.
- Tasted by
- ItalianWines editorial (drinker consensus)
- Tasted on
- 23 August 2026
- Source
- Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
- Taste profile
Fresh red and black fruit leads: cherry, raspberry and strawberry on the producer's sheet, blackberry and plum topping the mentions across Vivino's 781 reviews. A violet note floats over the top, with a balsamic, earthy edge in some bottles.
Dry, round and foaming, with 9 grams of sugar buried under Salamino's acidity. The fizz scrubs the tongue, the fruit stays vivid, and at 11.5% it keeps the lightness the producer built it for.
Clean and brisk: Salamino's gentle tannin closes it dry on red fruit, and at 11.5% it asks for the next bite of something fatty.
A record for Lambrusco: Gambero Rosso's Tre Bicchieri 17 years running. Vivino's ten thousand drinkers settle at 3.8, praising the black fruit and the easy freshness. Serve it cold with salumi and rich pasta, and drink it young.
Where to buy Concerto in the UK
Four listings, all in stock at our last check: £12.30 for the 2025 through £19 for the 2024. Every bottle is the standard 75cl under cork.
How Concerto scores in practice
Six practical scores. Near the top for food, value and everyday drinking; near the bottom for the cellar, because this wine is built for now.
Fat-cutting fizz plus acidity: salumi, ragu, pizza and fried food; the wine's home region built its table around it.
£12.30 to £19 for a 17-time Tre Bicchieri wine, at everyday-bottle prices.
Weeknight price, weeknight strength, four in-stock UK listings: an everyday bottle with a pedigree.
Dry but fruity, a light 11.5%, served cold: an easy first step past supermarket Lambrusco, and the fizz makes it friendly.
A brilliant aperitivo pour and a talking point, but a £15 frizzante is not a milestone-dinner centrepiece.
The producer's own window is one to two years; buy it, chill it, drink it.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
Reggiano in five fields
A compact view of what the Reggiano denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
2024 or 2025: buy the younger one
Concerto is bottled the March after harvest and made to drink within a year or two, so the 2025 is the pick. Vivino rates recent years a steady 3.8.
- Lowest price
- £12.30
- Retailers
- 2 in stock
- ABV
- 11.5%
- Window
- Drink now through 2027
The current release: 11.5% on the producer's sheet, 9 grams of sugar, fresh acidity. Drink it cold and young; Medici Ermete calls one to two years the window.
- Lowest price
- £19.00
- Retailers
- 1 in stock
- Window
- Drink now through 2026
Bottled in the March after harvest and built to drink young: the producer's window is one to two years. Early Vivino ratings sit at 3.8, level with the wine's long-run average.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Perfect Pairings
Dishes that go with this wine
Salumi, ragu, pizza: Concerto's home ground
Emilia pours its dry Lambrusco with fatty, salty food. Svinando's sheet points at meat ragout and stuffed veal roasts; the fizz does the cleaning.
Salumi, gnocco fritto and cured meat
Reggio Emilia drinks Concerto with its own food: fatty salumi and fried gnocco. The bubbles and acidity strip the fat from each bite, so the plate never turns heavy. This is the pairing the wine was built around.
Try with: Gnocco fritto · More pairings →
Ragu and baked pasta
Svinando's own sheet points Concerto at meat ragout. Tomato and slow-cooked beef want acidity, and a cold, dry Lambrusco lifts lasagne the way still reds cannot.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Eggplant parmesan · More pairings →
Pizza night
Light body, dark fruit and scrubbing fizz sit level with a Margherita's char and tomato. The wine stays refreshing where a heavy red would flatten the slice.
Try with: Pizza Margherita · Pizza Diavola · More pairings →
Cotoletta and salty pork dishes
Prosciutto-topped cotoletta brings salt and fry together. Salt makes Concerto's fruit taste sweeter and its fizz brighter, a push and pull Emilia has cooked around for generations.
Try with: Cotoletta alla bolognese · More pairings →
Delicate white fish and fierce heat
Steamed fish drowns under red fruit and foam, and truly fierce chilli picks a fight with tannin even at 11.5%. Pour a crisp white such as Gavi with the fish and keep Concerto for the meat board.
Skip with: Steamed sea bass · Vindaloo · Oysters · Pairing guide →
Not a keeper, and that is the point
Keep it cool and dark and drink it young: the producer's window is one to two years from harvest. Serve at 8 to 9°C, colder than most reds.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
The producer's own window is one to two years; buy it, chill it, drink it.
£12.30 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
Sources behind this Concerto page
Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 13 Sep 2026, 00:25 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.
Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumPages connected to Concerto
Common Questions
No. Concerto is a dry (secco) Lambrusco, fermented in steel tank, with 9 grams of sugar per litre buried under high acidity. The fizz and the deep colour read sweet; the palate is not.
100% Lambrusco Salamino, from a single clay vineyard at Tenuta La Rampata near Reggio Emilia, a cru idea born in 1993 and farmed organically.
No Lambrusco has won more Tre Bicchieri: 17 years in a row, a record for the grape. Add 91 points from James Suckling on the 2018, and it sells in over 70 countries.
Chilled at 8 to 9°C, the producer's own advice: treat it like a red served as cold as a white. Open it just before pouring so the foam stays lively.
Drink it young: Medici Ermete says within one or two years of the harvest. It is bottled the March after picking and is at its best fresh.
Current listings run from 12.30 pounds for the 2025 to 19 pounds for the 2024, all in stock at our last check. That is everyday money for a wine with 17 Tre Bicchieri.
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