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 ...

Moscato d’Asti, the sweet sparkling wine with low alcohol levels from Piemonte, Italy, is often described as “light”, “fruity”, “fun”, and “sweet”. Two words not associated with Moscato d’Asti are ...

Moscato, and its bumptious, worldwide grape family, generally known in English as "Muscat," may or may not (depending on which dictionary you consult) share a common root with the word "musky-- but ...

Of all the wines in the world, Moscato is easily among the most misunderstood. Sure, there are plenty of terrible bottles out there, but that's true of practically every grape variety. Over-cropped ...

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 ...

Nectar-bright fruit and flowers, bubbly and sweet: Piemonte's famous wines made of the Moscato Bianco grape. Hazan had come to the opposite conclusion about that last one: "Pale gold and sparkling, it ...

Some wines are meant to impress, others are meant to make you smile. Moscato d’Asti belongs to the second kind. It’s light, sparkling just enough to dance on the tongue, and so fragrant it feels like ...