Sweet
Moscato d'Asti
By Franco Boasso - Gabutti, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Moscato d'Asti from a small Serralunga vineyard planted in 1984, fermented in autoclave.
Tasting notes
Straw yellow with golden reflections, intense nose with notes of peach. Sweet but not cloying.
Pairs well with
Aperitifs, sweets and fruit
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Moscato d'Asti DOCG
- Grape
- Moscato 100%
- Production area
- Serralunga d'Alba
- Soil
- Clayey (page); calcareous-clayey (tech sheet)
- Exposure
- West
- Harvest
- End of August to beginning of September; yield 90-100 quintals per hectare
- Vineyard planting
- 0.5 ha per page (2,500 m2 per tech sheet), planted 1984; 0.80 x 2.60 m, rootstock 420A-SO4, Guyot; altitude 350 m
- Vinification
- Grapes destemmed, short skin maceration, soft pressing; free-run must fermented in a steel autoclave at 12-15 C with natural second fermentation. About 1,500 bottles.
- Serving temperature
- 8-10 C
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