Description

Saracco Moscato d’Asti DOCG 2024

93 pts – Wine Enthusiast

A benchmark Moscato d’Asti that perfectly balances luxurious richness with brilliant acidity. The wine captures pure sunshine, exhibiting pristine floral aromas and fresh stone fruit that flow seamlessly into a palate of remarkable clarity and definition. The effervescence carries the sweetness with grace and precision, demonstrating why this variety finds its highest expression in Asti. A masterclass in what makes Moscato d’Asti special, showing both power and delicacy in perfect harmony. — Jeff Porter

The Saracco Moscato d’Asti DOCG 2024 is a highly-regarded, lightly sparkling Italian white dessert wine known for its vibrant fresh character, intense floral (orange blossom) and fruity (peach, apricot) aromas, and well-balanced sweetness with bright acidity, making it a benchmark for the style, great with pastries, fruit, or cheeses like Gorgonzola

VINIFICATION

After harvesting, the bunches are gently pressed to extract the most flavorful juice from the outermost part of the grapes. The must is kept in stainless steel containers at -3°C, where it can be kept for months.  When there is market demand, it is then transferred into autoclaves for temperature-controlled fermentation, microfiltered for purity and then bottled to keep the freshness and flavors intact.

WINEMAKER’S NOTES

Lightly sparkling aromatic wine. Aromas of peach, apricot, lemon peel and white flowers. Complex, good body with balance between sweetness and acidity, nice persistence. While most Italians tend to drink the frizzante Moscato as a digestif or for celebrations, Saracco Moscato d’Asti is the perfect everyday wine that goes well with pizza, salumi, sushi, spicy foods, fruity desserts, etc. At 6% alcohol, you can drink it for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon pick me up, aperitif, with dinner and then even finish your evening with a glass – in other words….Moscato is extremely versatile at any time of the day or night!

COLOUR:

Straw yellow with greenish hues, fine perlage, slow fermentation index.

BOUQUET:

Intense orange blossom, peach and thyme (the main aromas found in the grapes)

TASTE:

Aromas of white peach, magnolia, sage and wild mint waft from the glass of this Moscato d’Asti. The palate is a study in balance, as the sweetness bends to the crisp acidity on the finish.

VARIETY:

Moscato Bianco Canelli

VINEYARDS:

Located in Castiglione Tinella, Santo Stefano Belbo, Castagnole Lanze, Calosso.

PAIRS WELL WITH:

Ideal with pastries, cakes, fruit tarts, ice cream, biscuits. Also delicious with cheeses such as gorgonzola and in cocktails.