Moscato d'Asti

Moscati d' Asti is an Italian sweet white wine from the provinces of Asti, Cuneo and Alessandria, Piedmont. 7,248 winegrowers build on an area of ​​8,957 hectares of white wine in an average amount of 554 220 hectoliters per year. Moscato d' Asti is produced only from grapes of Moscato Bianco and has the status of DOCG; the wine is also the basis of the sparkling wine Asti Spumante, which undergoes a second fermentation. The wine is intended for immediate enjoyment and should always be drunk within a year.

  • Colour: straw yellow to golden straw yellow
  • Scent: lasting and very aromatic, typical Moscato
  • Alcohol content: 4.5-6.5 volume percent ( the wine must have at least 10.5 % by volume potential alcoholic strength of at least 1/3 of the sugar is not fermented and remains as residual sugar in the wine. )
  • Total acidity: 5-9 per thousand
  • Serving temperature: 10 ° C

Approved communities

In the bill of 1936 vines have been defined as belonging to the appellation in 45 municipalities: Acqui Terme, Alice Bel Colle, Asti, Bistagno, Bubbio Calamandrana, Calosso, Camo, Canelli, Cassinasco, Cassine, castagnole delle lance, Castel Boglione, Castel Rocchero, Castelletto Molina, Castelnuovo Belbo, Castiglione Tinella, Cessole, Coazzolo, Cossano Belbo, Costigliole d' Asti, Fontanile, Grognardo, Incisa Scapaccino, Loazzolo, mango, Maranzana, Moasca, Mombaruzzo, Monastero Bormida, Montabone, Neive, Neviglie, Nice Monferrato, Quaranti, Ricaldone, Rocchetta Belbo, San Marzano Oliveto, Santo Stefano Belbo, Sessame, Strevi, Terzo, Treiso, Trezzo Tinella, Vesime and Visone.

In -enactment of the 1967 and 1976 land still were added in Rocchetta Palafea, Alba, Santa Vittoria d' Alba, Serralunga d' Alba, Castino Perletto and San Giorgio Scarampi.

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