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What Is a "Chillable" Red Wine?

A few minutes in the fridge can enhance some red wines.

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Fredric Koeppel
May 05, 2026
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In the late 1970s, one of the most obnoxious television commercials ever made advertised Cella Lambrusco. The primary figure in the commercial was Aldo, a short, plumb, not very attractive man around whom beautiful young women flocked because he advocated chilling bottles of the lightly sparkling red wine from Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. “Chill a Cel…

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