Moscato d'Asti is a "Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita" sparkling white wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 produced mainly in the province of Asti

Province of Asti

The Province of Asti is a province in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Asti. To the north west it borders on the province of Turin; to the south west it borders on the province of Cuneo. To the east it borders on the province of Alessandria, while in the south it...

, north-west Italy, and in smaller nearby regions in the provinces of Alessandria

Province of Alessandria

The Province of Alessandria is an Italian province, with a population of some 430,000, which forms the southeastern part of the region of Piedmont. The provincial capital is the city of Alessandria....

 and Cuneo

Province of Cuneo

ayr is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ....

. The wine is sweet and low in alcohol, and often enjoyed with dessert. Thus it is considered a dessert wine

Dessert wine

Dessert wines are sweet wines typically served with dessert.There is no simple definition of a dessert wine. In the UK, a dessert wine is considered to be any sweet wine drunk with a meal, as opposed to the white fortified wines drunk before the meal, and the red fortified wines drunk after it...

. It is from the Moscato Bianco grape.
Moscato d'Asti is the main ingredient of Cocchi Americano

Cocchi Americano

Cocchi Americano is an aperitif wine from the Asti province of Italy. The wine was developed by Giulio Cocchi, and production began in 1891....

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A related wine, Asti, is produced in the same area from the same grape.

External links

• Consorzio dell’Asti D.O.C.G., official site.