Muscat
Muscat is not so much a single grape variety as the family name for over 300 Muscat varieties. Muscat à Petits Grains is widely regarded as the finest quality with Muscat of Alexandria, Muscat Hamburg and Muscat Ottone also making good wines. This is the only grape type that actually tastes of grapes and it has a strong and very pleasant grapey fragrance that you could sniff all day. An ancient Mediterranean variety, Muscat makes a range of wines including dry and off dry light whites and a number of excellent sweet dessert wines. Perhaps it is best known as Asti Spumante and Moscato D’Asti where it produces an off dry, thirst quenching white wine of fantastic fragrance and perfume.
Primary fruit character: grapes and raisins
Secondary fruit character: exotic spices, candied fruit, crystallised grapes
Spiritual home: Alsace, France
Home from home: grown widely all over the world in one form or another. The best examples are the sweet wines of Beaumes de Venise, Rivesaltes and Frontignan, Moscato D’Asti and Asti Spumante in Italy
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