5 Wines for a Lana Del Rey Playlist
The night is still. The sky is bruised. Your lipstick is smudged just right. There’s perfume on your collar and something unfinished in your chest. Lana’s playing. Obviously.
Here are 5 wines to match the melancholy, the glamour, the yearning, the you of it all.
1. Aged Nebbiolo (Barolo)
Track: "Young and Beautiful"
This wine smells like faded roses and old books. It’s intense, poetic, and unapologetically dramatic. Tannic like a love that won’t let go. Barolo — the queen of Italian reds — pairs perfectly with existential glamour and a vintage slip dress.
2. Pet-Nat Rosé
Track: "Diet Mountain Dew"
Bubbly, flirty, totally unpredictable. Pet-Nat is Lana in her coquette chaos era. Slightly fizzy, slightly funky, definitely trouble. Drink this on a rooftop while pretending the city is yours to ruin.
3. Sancerre
Track: "Video Games"
Crisp, cold, and devastating in its simplicity. Sancerre tastes like rain-soaked windows and staring at someone too long. Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire Valley, with citrus, wet stone, and silent heartbreak. Minimalism, but with depth.
4. Chilled Lambrusco
Track: "Ride"
This is for the sad girl summer. Fizzy, red, and misunderstood. Lambrusco is dark cherry with a wild streak — the kind of wine you drink from the bottle in a motel parking lot. It wants to love you loud, even if it ends messy.
5. White Burgundy (Chardonnay)
Track: "Mariners Apartment Complex"
Elegant but emotional. Creamy but restrained. This is your softest unraveling. A Chardonnay from Burgundy that feels like whispered truths and second chances. Best paired with forgiveness — of them, or yourself.
