Muscat / Moscato

Muscat is a noble and versatile white grape variety grown in many parts of the wine-producing world and used for wines of all levels of sweetness, from fully sweet to bone dry. Its traditional homeland is France, where it is cultivated extensively in the Languedoc, but it also widely grown in Italy under its local nomenclature 'Moscato'. Whatever the sweetness, the wines it produces have a characteristic grapey, floral and aromatic character - indeed it is perhaps the only wine that actually smells or tastes like the raw material from which it is produced.