Castello di Neive, Moscato d'Asti, 2024
Castello di Neive, Moscato d'Asti, 2024
- 75cl
- 5.5%
- White Sparkling
- Moscato Bianco
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Optimal drinking window: 2026 - 2028
Est. delivery in June, 2026
Castello di Neive's Moscato d'Asti captures everything we love about this most refreshing of Italian wines. From vineyards around the historic village of Neive in Piemonte, this is Moscato as it should be: lightly sparkling, gently sweet, and bursting with aromatic intensity.
The 2024 vintage shows classic peach and pear fruit with orange blossom perfume, balanced by that signature crisp acidity that makes Moscato d'Asti so moreish. At just 5.5% alcohol, it's the perfect aperitivo or dessert wine, best enjoyed young and fresh until 2028.
The Moscato vineyards sit on calcareous clay soils at 250-400 metres elevation around Neive, benefiting from the area's continental climate with warm days and cool nights. These conditions preserve the grape's natural acidity whilst allowing the development of intense aromatics. The limestone-rich soils contribute to the wine's characteristic freshness and mineral backbone.
Moscato d'Asti DOCG is one of Italy's most tightly regulated appellations, requiring hand-harvested Moscato Bianco grapes and a specific winemaking process that preserves natural grape sugars and creates gentle effervescence. The wine must be bottled within a year of harvest and cannot exceed 5.5% alcohol. This differs from fully sparkling Asti Spumante, with Moscato d'Asti being more delicate and aromatic.
The 2024 vintage in Piemonte arrived with all the drama of a Verdi opera. Spring brought welcome rainfall after several parched years, filling the water tables and setting the vines up beautifully for the growing season ahead. Summer proved mercifully cooler than recent scorchers, allowing the grapes to ripen slowly and steadily without the stress that had marked too many harvests in the preceding decade. By September, producers were grinning like cats with cream as they surveyed fruit with proper acidity intact and tannins that had developed real structure rather than the rushed ripeness they'd battled in hotter years.
What we've tasted so far suggests a vintage that combines the best of both worlds: the concentration that comes from modern viticulture with the freshness that makes Piemontese wines sing. The Nebbiolo shows particular promise, displaying that iron-fist-in-velvet-glove character that defines great Barolo and Barbaresco when the stars align. Barbera has bounced back magnificently, delivering wines with proper zip and focus rather than the soft, overripe fruit we saw too often in the 2010s. Most of these wines want at least five years in the cellar to show their true colours, though the best examples should reward patience until 2040 and beyond.
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