Top Quality Moscato d’Asti: Romano Dogliotti

2005 Moscato d’Asti ‘La Caudrina’, Romano Dogliotti, Piemonte, Italy

Appearance: medium green gold, attractive fat bubbles.

Nose: beautiful Muscat fruit with grapey and perfumed orange aromas.

Palate: lovely fruit, more residual sugar here than on some examples, but this is matched by excellent acidity and very good length. Moscato d’Asti, although relatively sweet, should be refreshing and this is just that.

Conclusion: one of the top producers of Moscato d’Asti. Beautiful. Possibly a little young at present – other Moscato d’Asti we’ve tried in recent months have been about two years old or so. However, it’s not usually worth ageing this kind of wine because it loses its aromatic fruit and tends to smell of geraniums after a while. The La Caudrina should be compared with Dogliotti’s La Galeisa, another Moscato d’Asti. Would also be worth comparing both wines with the 2005 Moscato d’Asti Piasa Sanmaurizio, Forteta della Luja, possibly the greatest Moscato d’Asti we’ve had.

Rating: 18.5/20