What a wonderful article! We had parallels in Spain where Franco’s administration put sanctions on cultural imports (it was hard to prohibit Beatles songs outright so the versions on Spanish radio were translated) so I understand the suspicion given to Select’s, ahem, “foreign” name. I wonder if we’ll ever know for sure if Stabilimento Enologico Liquori E Cremore Tartaro was legit or a creative conjuration.
I’d love to see what those old handmade glasses that came in the SELECT Gift Box looked like, what a treasure that must have been.

ETA - I’ll just drop this version from Alessandro Marzo Magno https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Marzo_Magno without comment:
https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/...o-3830020.html