{"id":1655,"date":"2021-03-21T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/?page_id=1655"},"modified":"2023-03-14T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:55:45","slug":"moscato-wine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wine-101\/sweet-wine-types\/moscato-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscato Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Made from the Muscat grape, moscato wine is typically sweet, fruity, and floral, often featuring notes of honeysuckle, orange blossom, pear, and lemon. Muscat grapes can be grown all over the world from France to Spain to South America, but the balmy Mediterranean climate of Southern Italy is the location best known for producing these sweet wines.

Find out where Moscato falls on the wine sweetness chart.<\/a>

<\/em>Moscato d\u2019Asti<\/strong>
Made with white Muscat Blanc grapes, Moscato d\u2019Asti is the most well-known Moscato wine. Sweet<\/a>, with a relatively low alcohol content of about 5 to 7%, Moscato d\u2019Asti is also typically \u201cfrizzante,\u201d which means it\u2019s slightly sparkling.

Asti Spumante<\/strong>
If you love the lightly effervescent nature of Moscato d\u2019Asti, you may also love Asti Spumante, which is the full sparkling version<\/a> of a Moscato sweet white wine<\/a>.

Moscato Giallo<\/strong>
Floral, citrus, and spice notes come together in this wine, which is drier than its counterparts because it\u2019s made from grapes grown in cooler climates than most Muscat.

Learn about more sweet wine types from around the world.<\/a>

<\/em>Pink Moscato<\/strong>
Pink Moscatos are typically sweet wines, most often made with Muscat Blanc grapes and a splash of red wine like Merlot. Moscato Rosa, however, is a blush wine made with red-skinned Muscat grapes.

Red Moscato
<\/strong>Black and orange Muscat grapes are used to make this red wine.

Moscatel<\/strong>
Moscatel, also called Muscat Blanc, is a Spanish still Moscato. Gone is the style\u2019s signature effervescence and its uniquely low alcohol content, as Moscatel tends to be around 11 to 13% ABV and can drink quite dry.

Dessert Moscato<\/strong>
With a richer mouthfeel and even more concentrated sweetness, dessert Moscatos are at home on the table after dinner, to be sipped and savored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Made from the Muscat grape, moscato wine is typically sweet, fruity, and floral, often featuring notes of honeysuckle, orange blossom, pear, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1656,"parent":1017,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1655","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}