Have you ever gone to buy a bottle of bubbly only to be stopped in your tracks by all the different options on the store ...

This sweet, lightly effervescent wine at 5 percent alcohol should not be confused with the more sparkling asti spumante. It’s also in complete contrast the big and robust iconic red wine barolo ...

It’s rare for a wine to actually taste like grapes, but this is the unadulterated joy of Moscato d’Asti – the “d’Asti” part referring to the town of Asti in Piedmont, north-western ...

A man uses a forklift to move bottles of Asti Spumante in the La Caudrina wine cellar in Castiglione Tinella, near Cuneo, Piedmont. Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP Italy's agricultural lobby group ...

Both Asti Spumante and Moscato d’Asti are low-ABV (generally about 7% and 5%, respectively) and unlike many other sparkling wines, they have no added sugar; the only sugar in the wines comes ...

Asti, January 10th, 2025 – The balance of Asti Spumante and Moscato d’Asti production is positive, with the total bottles for 2024 surpassing the 90 million mark, which is in line with the previous ...

Fortunately, Regan DeBenedetto, sommelier at Spuntino Wine Bar & Italian Tapas in Clifton, has some tips on what to look for in different varieties of sparkling wine, and how to go about expanding ...

Asti Spumante and Moscato d’Asti come from the same Moscato Bianco grape and the same territory in Piedmont, but they’re two separate and distinct wines. Asti Spumante is the best-known ...

Marco Cervellera, enologist (wine-maker) at Fattoria La Vialla, a sustainable and biodynamic family-run farm in Tuscany that delivers to the UK, says: “Sparkling wine, or spumante, is the result ...