![]() If you do not like what we have to say about a particular wine you can say, “Kiss my ass and give me a Maneshevitz.”Įach of us drinks at least a bottle of different wine a day, so that adds up to a yearly consumption that approximates that of Luxembourg. The reviews of wines by the Cheap Wine Snobs are based upon the consumption and assessment of lots of wine. That explains the “Cheap” and the “Snob.” We have been friends for more than twenty years and have traveled around the world tasting wines. The Cheap Wine Snobs are both artists with impeccable taste and not much money so we live beyond our means. Made from the same grape, it’s tinged with a hint of Rose wine, to give it a pretty pink edge.The purpose of Cheap Wine Snobs is to enlighten and inform the legions of the Great Unwashed who are drowning in the copious amounts of pointless fermented grape drool. Increasingly popular is Pink Moscato, which is a flirtatiously fruity pink version. It tastes sweet, but light, and it has a delightful freshness, and a refreshing tang. Moscato has one of the most enchanting and beguiling aromas of any grape variety, and one whiff of its glorious honeysuckle, elderflower and lychee aromas, will bring a smile to most wine drinkers’ faces! It’s very aromatic, with a hint of rose petals, and on the palate, it’s a burst of fresh, sweet, grapey fruit, laced with elderflowers, honey and citrus. So they are perfect lunchtime and picnic wines. The highly popular Moscato wines now coming out of the US and Australia, are usually,lightly sparkling, and deliciously refreshing, with the added benefit of being under 10% in alcohol ( usually about 8.5%, but often as low as 5.5%). They must be drunk very cold, preferably, on a hot sunny day, or with a deliciously fruit and cream dessert. Moscato type wines are deliciously fruity, sweet, lively, frothy wines – one of the few wines, that actually tastes of fresh grapes! The best Asti Spumante and Moscato d’Asti really do taste of fruity, fizzy fresh grape juice. In summary, watch this space – Muscat is grown all over the world, so it’s only a matter of time until more countries leap onto the new style Moscato bandwagon! Top producer at the moment is the US, but Australia also has a strong heritage of Moscato, and there are now some interesting new Moscato wines coming from Chile and Argentina. The Muscat grape has been grown all over the world for centuries, but in places like California and Australia, it’s only been in recent years, that wine producers have started to change the use of this grape from the traditional, sticky, sweet dessert wine, to this fashionable new style of fresh, fruity, lightly sparkling wine. Historically, it’s from north west Italy, but with its new fashion status, our shelves are now filling up fast with fruity Moscatos from all over the world. Now, with a total transformation of character, and a change of name, it’s creating waves all over the world. This style was adopted, from the Italian style in the US, in the early noughties, whereas traditionally California had also produced, the heavy, sweet, sticky version of Muscat de Alexandria, as it was known over there. There are also many still versions of Moscato, which are now growing increasingly popular, from all over the world, but one of the most favourite styles, has a light spritz ( otherwise meansing very gently sparkling),and is known as frizzante. The Moscato is a delicate grape, that ripens quickly and burns in the sun, so it is harvested early and is best seen in these fresher, lighter styles of wine.įor many years these wines had a poor reputation, and were unfairly dismissed by UK wine drinkers, as cheap, sweet sparkling wine, despite their deliciously fresh, easy drinking flavours. Whilst traditional Muscat wines are sticky, heavy dessert wines, in Piemonte, the Moscato grape is used to make light, fresh, frothy, sweet, yet lively sparkling wines, with low levels of alcohol. It’s best known as Moscato di Canelli, the grape that is grown in the Piedmont region of north west of Italy, and has been making Asti Spumante and Moscato d’Asti or Moscato Spumante for centuries. Moscato has been grown in northern Italy for centuries, and is the country’s 4th most widely planted grape variety. Moscato is simply, one of the many variants of the Muscat, one of the oldest grape varieties in the world
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