These include the distinct varieties Muscat Blanc a Petit Grains, Muscat Ottonel, Muscat of Alexandria and Muscat Hamburg (roughly in order of quality). To make matters worse, some of these grapes ...

With over 200 varieties, Muscat is a family of grapes best known for their deeply perfumed berries. Often made into sweet wines, ... Mauritson 2022 Muscat Blanc, Big Valley District ($33) ...

Northeast Hungary’s Tokaji-Hegyalija region is famous worldwide for its highly prized sweet wine blend called Tokaji Aszu, which is made from botrytized Furmint, Harslevelu, and Muscat Blanc grapes.

Pinot Blanc is typically the first grape to come off the vine – picked around 21 Brix (or sugar level). The Riesling and ...

Muscat — A Guide to the Basics. From Moscato d’Asti to Zibibbo di Pantelleria, the Muscat family of grapes is responsible for more wines than it gets credit for.

An episode on Muscats in the podcast Wine For Normal People highlights it as the “granddaddy” of wine grapes with about 200 varietals. In fact, Muscat d’Alexandria is a baby of Muscat Blanc ...

A grape variety called Shine Muscat is helping to change perceptions that farming isn’t lucrative, say officials in Yamanashi Prefecture. That may explain a surge in new mostly young farmers to ...

In 2018, only 7.4 percent of vineyards were used to farm shine muscat grapes. The fruit is currently the most farmed variety of grape in Korea, surpassing campbell grapes which had taken first place ...

Japanese consumers don’t have to hear about the increasing popularity of the Shine Muscat through the grapevine, but can see it in the clusters of yellow-green grapes packing produce sections.