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Medici Ermete Concerto Lambrusco Reggiano

Medici Ermete & Figli
Grape
Lambrusco
Denomination
Reggiano DOC
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.

Best price
£12.30

2025 · 75cl · checked 6 Sep

Vintages 2025 2024

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Where to buy Medici Ermete, 'Concerto', Reggiano, Lambrusco

£12.30 best price · 3 retailers in stock · checked 13 Sep 2026

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Svinando Best price 2025 · 75cl · checked 6 Sep
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£12.30 £16.40/L
Great Wines Direct Best price 2025 · 75cl · checked 13 Sep
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£16.76 £22.35/L
Hedonism Best price 2024 · 75cl · checked 6 Sep
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£19.00 £25.33/L
Unavailable (1)
Great Wines Direct Best price 2024 · 75cl · checked 6 Sep
Out of stock
£16.80 £22.40/L
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Tasting Notes

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
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

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.

VioletViolet
BlackberryBlackberry
CherryCherry
PlumPlum
RaspberryRaspberry
StrawberryStrawberry
VanillaVanilla
Palate

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.

Finish

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.

Overall

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.

Drink now Best by 2027
Live UK pricing

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.

Best price · 75 cl £12.30 at svinando
Price spread £12.30 - £19.00 Across 3 UK retailers tracked
Retailers tracked 3UK 3 in stock
Vintages live 2025 · 2024 Current release: 2025
Per-litre (75 cl basis) £16.40 Per-litre price for the lowest current offer
Last checked 13 Sep 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

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.

Best with food 9.0/10

Fat-cutting fizz plus acidity: salumi, ragu, pizza and fried food; the wine's home region built its table around it.

Best value 8.5/10

£12.30 to £19 for a 17-time Tre Bicchieri wine, at everyday-bottle prices.

Best everyday bottle 8.5/10

Weeknight price, weeknight strength, four in-stock UK listings: an everyday bottle with a pedigree.

Best intro to this style 8.0/10

Dry but fruity, a light 11.5%, served cold: an easy first step past supermarket Lambrusco, and the fizz makes it friendly.

Best for an occasion 4.5/10

A brilliant aperitivo pour and a talking point, but a £15 frizzante is not a milestone-dinner centrepiece.

Best for cellar 1.0/10

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.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

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.

Allowed grapes
Variety list not yet recorded
This bottle: Lambrusco.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Emilia Romagna
Style
DOC · Reggiano
Classification
DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata)
Vintages

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.

2025 Current release
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.

2024 Previous release
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.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

A record: Tre Bicchieri 17 years in a row

No other Lambrusco matches Concerto's run of 17 consecutive Tre Bicchieri from Gambero Rosso. It comes from one clay vineyard, Tenuta La Rampata, farmed organically near Reggio Emilia.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.

Reggiano is in the DOC tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. Varieties not yet recorded
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Reggiano falls within Emilia Romagna.

Reggiano DOC zone The producer

Made at Medici Ermete & Figli, Reggio Emilia. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • Medici Ermete & FigliProducer / estate
  • LambruscoGrape varieties
  • Reggiano DOCGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 11.5% vol · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of Medici Ermete, 'Concerto', Reggiano, Lambrusco

Tracked from
£12.30
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 1 down
Main factor
Tre Bicchieri 17 years in a row
  1. 01

    Single-vineyard Salamino, yields capped low

    Cost up

    Concerto comes only from the clay of Tenuta La Rampata, farmed organically with yields held to 10,000 kg per hectare: a cru approach most Lambrusco never gets.

  2. 02

    Tre Bicchieri 17 years in a row

    Cost up

    Gambero Rosso has given Concerto its top award 17 years running, a record for Lambrusco; demand across 70-plus export countries runs ahead of the 150,000 bottles made.

  3. 03

    Steel tank, no oak, quick turnaround

    Cost down

    Fermented in stainless steel, bottled the March after harvest and sold young: no barrels, no cellar years, no capital tied up. That is how a Tre Bicchieri wine stays near £15.

  4. 04

    UK duty and VAT

    Cost up

    Duty on an 11.5% bottle is £2.64 (£30.62 per litre of pure alcohol since February 2026); with VAT, about £5.44 of a £16.80 bottle is tax, a third of the price.

  5. 05

    Organic farming across the estate

    Cost up

    Medici Ermete farms about 80 hectares across five estates entirely organically; hand work replaces herbicide, and certification costs land on every label.

01

Single-vineyard Salamino, yields capped low

Cost up

Concerto comes only from the clay of Tenuta La Rampata, farmed organically with yields held to 10,000 kg per hectare: a cru approach most Lambrusco never gets.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Food Pairing

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.

Fat cutting Strong match

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 →

Acidity matching Strong match

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 →

Body matching Good match

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 →

Salt balance Good match

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 →

Avoid Clash

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 →

Drinking + cellar

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.

Drinking window
2026 → 2027

Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

Decanting
no

A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.

Cellar potential
Low

The producer's own window is one to two years; buy it, chill it, drink it.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£12.30 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Concerto page

Prices & stock

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 · High
Tasting notes

Drawn 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 · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our 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 · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium

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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