Austria Has Mozart, Italy Has Verdi

...and they both know how to milk it. Shopping the other day (O.C. can't buy *everything* at Peck), we spied a special on Giuseppe Verdi Lambrusco, a carbonated red wine that's pretty popular around Parma. Nice -- even the price -- on sale for € 3,95.

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Comments

[A Real Cad]

Let's play Rigoletto and get drunk

[Michael]

Almost as blatent as at the Met shop last year, where I saw a bog-standard cookery book being sold as it had a foreward, with nothing at all to do with opera, by Renée Fleming. Blatent and rip-off come to mind.

That Verdi wine sounds headache inducing. Wonder if it's actually Asti spumante but they've got none of the wicker stuff to go round the bottle?!

[furst]

Lambrusco, huh? I dunno OC, hardly Italy's finest.

[infant]

Mozart's got hte Austrians and Verdi's got the Italians... Guess which one's are more successful in marketing their composer... and to think that Italy also has Monteverdi, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, etc etc etc. Oh, bye theway, if my memory serves me well, Lambrusco is the typical wine from Verdi's region of birth in Italy and most probably the wine that the MAESTRO drank off his own properties. Well, at least the Italians got that one right!!!!!

[flipstinger]

It would be even more brill if they could use Verdi's name to advert Brunello...