2009 Forteto della Luja Moscato d'Asti Piasa San Maurizio
Producer: Forteto della Luja
Style: Sparkling
Grape Type: Muscat
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont
90 Points | International Wine Cellar , March 2010
(100% white muscat) Golden yellow with a strong froth. Enticing nose of baked apple, panna cotta and honeyed citrus peel. Bright and fresh, with a creamy sweetness to its grapey citrus flavors and a long, smooth finish.
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Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry
Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap
and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern
style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines;
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Muscat
One of the more versatile white wine grapes, Muscat is grown around the world for use in use in light and dry wines, low-alcohol sparkling wines, and sweet, late-harvest wines. Its proliferation around the world (and especially around the Mediterranean) leads us to conclude that Muscat was one of the first...
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