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[Moscatello]
The finest of the grapey muscat family for winemaking, typically aromatic and deliciously fruity, also manages a crisp edged finesse in the best wines. Can be exhuberantly sweet or clean and dry.
A sub variety of Moscatello found in Montalcino where it is used to make sweet, dense and liquory white wines
Wine regions
Viticulture and winemaking ...
At those times the most cultivated white grapes - as well as considered to be the best - were Verdicchio, Trebbiano, Moscatello Bianco and Uva Bianca della Maddalena; among red grapes, the best ones were Balsamina, Vernaccia and Moscatello Aleatico.
 See also: Aroma, Moscatell, Sweet, Wine, Grape
  
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