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15-04-2021
Column: Wine Chat - MOSCATO
Column: Wine Chat - MOSCATO
On the whole, moscato tends to get a bad wrap — popular with impoverished uni students for its quaffability and low price point, wine snobs will have you believe moscatos are inordinately sweet and lacking in any depth or complexity. Pay them no heed. While moscatos tend to polarise public opinion, they are without a doubt made from one of the most versatile, serviceable, and diverse subsets of grape in the wine-making world — used all over the globe to produce everything from spritzy dry whites and light picnic reds, to sumptuous, sticky dessert wines.
While the term “moscato” is bandied about on labels as if it were a singular entity, it does not refer to one specific grape variety. In fact, there are well over 200 different variants of muscat grape that make up the broader moscato ‘family’. This is largely due to the fact that muscat grapes are some of the oldest in the world — so old in fact that their precise origins are unknown. Although we have no firm genealogical proof, some theorise muscat grapes h

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