La Spinetta Moscato d'Asti DOCG "Biancospino" 2018

Description

La Spinetta Moscato d’Asti Biancospino 2018 is an amazing sparkling wine if you like a slightly sweeter style of wine; and even if you don’t, it goes fantastically well with desserts. The wine manages to be both slightly sweet and yet very refreshing and so cuts through any richness like chocolate but also complements fruit flavours. It has the added benefit of being low in alcohol at 4.5%. La Spinetta Moscato d’Asti Biancospino is beautifully perfumed but not overpoweringly aromatic. Although slightly sweet, it is not cloyingly sweet because of the  lovely crisp acidity which makes this a light, fresh sparkling wine. The wine has aromas of grape, apple and tangerine. Flavours are similar to the aromas with lemon and a hint of peach. This is quite a delicate wine with a fine mousse but elegant and medium-bodied.

Biancospino is the name of the vineyard from which the grapes for this Moscato D’Asti DOCG originate; the vines are 44 – 50 years old. The Moscato d’Asti grape, known as Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains in France, is the classic Muscat grape and in this region of Italy the best grapes go into Moscato d’Asti, the rest into the notorious (“nasty”) Asti. Known for its floral aromatics and high sugar content, Moscato is also often seen in dessert wines. It is notoriously difficult to grow – yields must be kept low otherwise the sugar and the aromas disappear.

Please note that La Spinetta Moscato d’Asti Biancospino is not topped with a “champagne cork” but with a standard cork which should be removed carefully with your usual corkscrew. For a different Moscato d’Asti, try Tacchino’s.