The time has come to stop overlooking Moscato d’Asti. For years, the gently sparkling Piedmontese classic has been largely relegated to the dessert cart, treated like a guilty pleasure rather than a ...

Moscato d’Asti, a light Italian sparkling wine from Piedmont, offers a delightful alternative to heavy dessert wines. With its gentle sweetness and fragrant notes of peach and honey, it perfectly ...

Moscato wine evokes strong opinions among oenophiles—they adore its sweet fruit aroma or can’t stand it one bit. Whether sipped as an aperitif or dessert wine, mixed into cocktails for fizz, poached ...

Asti DOCG covers four wine typologies. The three that I won’t be covering here but that are worth seeking out as well are: metodo Martinotti spumante (traditionally made Dolce at around 90 grams of rs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. Sometimes you simply need pleasure from a wine rather than a ...

I’ve been trying hard to fend off my sweet tooth, but the game is over. There is just no resisting the plethora of holiday goodies that will parade themselves in front of me over the course of the ...

Filipinos are particularly fond of lifting glasses of sparkling Asti Spumante for holiday cheer. There’s a misconception among Filipinos, though, that “Asti” is simply that white wine — when it’s ...