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Vietti Cascinetta Moscato D'asti DOCG 2022 (750ml)
Price: $19.99
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Sweet and delicate on the palate, with modest acidity, and good balance and complexity.
| Producer | Vietti Cascinetta Moscato D'asti DOCG |
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| Country | Italy |
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| Varietal | Moscato |
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| Vintage | 2022 |
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| Sku | 24909 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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Vietti Cascinetta Moscato d’Asti 2022
Designation: Moscato d’Asti D.O.C.G.
Grape Variety: Moscato 100%
Vineyard
The grapes are from small vineyards in Castiglione Tinella. 4500 plants per hectare; Guyot-cultivated vines with an average age of 40 years. Limestone - and clay - rich soil.
Winemaking
The grapes are harvested by hand in and around late August/early September (in 2022, the harvest was particularly early). The winemaking begins with the delicate pressing of the grapes and natural cold decanting. The must is stored at a very low temperature in stainless-steel tanks to avoid spontaneous fermentation. Throughout the year, individual portions of the must are put in an autoclave at a temperature of 12-14 degrees to initiate alcoholic fermentation. When a percentage of around 5.5% alcohol by volume is reached, the temperature is quickly reduced to stop the fermentation. The wine, which is only partially fermented, is then filtered. This Muscat wine does not undergo malolactic fermentation and is bottled using sterile filtration, so that it maintains its natural freshness, aromas and fine bubbles.
Description
Bright straw-yellow colour with slightly shimmering hints of gold. Intense aromas of ripe yellow fruit (peach, apricot), floral notes (rose petal) and hints of ginger. Sweet and delicate on the palate, with modest acidity, and good balance and complexity. Hints of fresh apricot on the finish.
Food Pairings
Excellent as an aperitif, it can be enjoyed with fruity and creamy desserts, dry pastries, blue cheeses, and lobster.
Vietti Cascinetta Moscato D'asti DOCG Description
Vietti
Vietti wines come from Castiglione Falletto wineyards, in the heart of the Barolo zone. The qualities of sandy-calcareous soil in this area gives a unique tannic heritage with very elegant olfactory sensations.
The History
The history of the Vietti winery traces its roots back to the 19th Century. Only at the beginning of the 20th century, however, did the Vietti name become a winery offering its own wines in bottle.
Patriarch Mario Vietti, starting from 1919 made the first Vietti wines, selling most of the production in Italy. His most significant achievement was to transform the family farm, engaged in many fields, into a grape-growing and wine-producing business.
Then, in 1952, Alfredo Currado (Luciana Vietti’s husband) continued to produce high quality wines from their own vineyards and purchased grapes. The Vietti winery grew to one of the top-level producers in Piemonte and was one of the first wineries to export its products to the USA market.
Alfredo was one of the first to select and vinify grapes from single vineyards (such as Brunate, Rocche and Villero). This was a radical concept at the time, but today virtually every vintner making Barolo and Barbaresco wines offers “single vineyard” or “cru-designated” wines.
Alfredo is also called the “father of Arneis” as in 1967 he invested a lot of time to rediscover and understand this nearly-lost variety. Today Arneis is the most famous white wine from Roero area, north of Barolo. Setting such a fine example with Arneis, even fellow vintners as far away those on the west coast of the United States now are cultivating and producing Arneis!
