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Description
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Description: A non-Champagne-sparkling-wine, Asti spumanti comes from the Turin region of Italy and is very popular with wine drinkers. Asti spumanti is Italy's second most produced wine, with "clones" produced in California and other locations. It is a sweet-to-semi-sweet dessert wine. Some people prefer asti to French Champagne because of asti's sweetness and easy drinking qualities.
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Asti is a "DOCG" wine, meaning it is regulated as to what grapes can be used in it, and what areas can create an Asti Spumanti. The DOCG rating system for Asti was set up in 1993. The Asti DOCG rating requires:
- D.O.C.G. STATUS: 1993
- GRAPE: Moscato bianco (white Moscato)
- MAXIMUM PRODUCED AMOUNT: 100 quintals grapes per hectare.
- COLOR: from straw yellow to pale golden yellow
- PERLAGE: fine and persistent
- BOUQUET: fragrant, of Moscato grapes
- TASTE: sweet, aromatic and chatacteristic
- LIMPIDITY: brilliant
- OVERALL MINIMUM ALCOHOL LEVEL: 11 degrees with minimum 4.5 degrees of reduced alcohol.
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