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Asti or Asti Spumante is a DOCG white sparkling wine produced in an area to the south of the town of Asti in Piedmont, Italy.
The success of Asti Spumante, simply called Asti, has a history of more than one hundred years when Carlo Gancia decided in 1865 to make a sparkling wine using Muscat Blanc.
Up until the 1960s, Prosecco sparkling wine was generally sweetish and barely distinguishable from the Asti Spumante wine produced in Piedmont. Since then, production techniques have improved, leading to the high-quality dry wines produced today.
Piedmont produces red Barolo and Barbaresco and the white, sparkling Asti Spumante. Vermouth, the flavoured dessert wine of Italy, originated in Turin, the principal Piedmontese city.
Asti from Piedmont was formerly called Asti Spumante - 'spumante' means 'sparkling' in Italian - but it became too associated with sugary, cheap generic spumantes.
Think of sparkling Italian wine and you're thinking of Asti (once known as Asti Spumante), an off-dry sparkling white wine made in Piedmont from the Muscat grape. The wine is often of poor quality, although good examples can rarely be found.
This is the grape of Asti Spumante, Italian's famous sparkling wine (the drier versions in Italy are far superior to the exported versions). The Italians make a wide range of Moscato wines, some fortified, some sparkling.
As a "frizzante," Moscato is not as bubbly as the related sparking wine Asti Spumante, but it is still popular for its sweet, fresh vibrancy and fruit-forward flavors.
Literally "foaming," Italian for sparkling wine, usually seen in combination with its source, as in "Asti Spumante."
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spumante: (Italian) Italian sparkling wine, usually white, and ranging from dry to very sweet. The most famous is Asti Spumante from north west Italy which is produced from the Moscato grape variety.
Varietal/Blend
Often blended with various other grape varieties to increase complexity and flavour. Also used to make Asti Spumante in Italy.
Spumante (Spoo-MAHN-tay) - Literally "foaming," Italian for sparkling wine, usually seen in combination with its source, as in "Asti Spumante." ...
Moscato in Italy , Moscatel in Iberia : This grape can turn into anything from the low-alcohol, sweet and frothy Asti Spumante and Muscat de Canelli to bone-dry wines like Muscat d'Alsace. It also produces fortified wine such as Beaumes de Venise.
In Italy, it goes by the alias Moscato di Canelli where it is also the base for asti spumante sweet sparklers. In South Africa, it goes by Muscadel and makes the wonderful and historic wine, Vin de Constance.
One of the most famous - and one of the most expensive Champagnes, was named after the monk that first made it in the 18th century. You guessed it - Dom Pierre Perignon. Italy makes a famous sparkling wine, too - Asti Spumante.
 See also: Spumante, Grape, Italy, Sparkling, Sweet
  
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