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Azienda Agricola La Spinetta
La Spinetta's Bricco Quaglia was Italy's first single-vineyard Moscato d'Asti, grown on 40-year-old vines at 300m in Castagnole delle Lanze. Peach, sage and honey lead a gently sparkling, low-alcohol sweet white at 5.5%, finishing clean and fresh.
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La Spinetta and Vivino drinkers describe the same wine: white peach, sage and delicate honey over a gently sparkling, low-alcohol frame. The notes below draw on the producer's own description and 1,384 Vivino reviews.
Intensely aromatic, as Moscato Bianco should be: white peach and ripe pear lift first, then the sage note La Spinetta highlights and a thread of delicate honey. Orange blossom and elderflower fill in behind, with the musky grapiness typical of the variety.
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HoneySweet but not heavy, carried by only 5.5% alcohol and a soft frizzante. Vivino drinkers consistently flag peach, pear and apple beside a honeyed, faintly mineral character that ties back to the calcareous marl of the Bricco Quaglia cru. Fresh acidity keeps the residual sugar lively rather than cloying.
Clean and fresh, exactly as the producer describes, the fruit fading into a fine-herb and citrus lift rather than leaving sweetness behind.
The original single-vineyard Moscato d'Asti, and still a benchmark: 4.1 on Vivino across more than 8,800 ratings and around 89 points from critics. Drinkers rate it as a graceful, great-value aperitif and dessert wine. Buy the latest vintage and serve it well chilled at 6 to 8C.
Two UK merchants list the 2025 Bricco Quaglia between £15 and £18. It is the original single-vineyard Moscato, made in roughly 110,000 bottles a year from the Bricco Quaglia cru.
Scored as a sweet, 5.5% single-vineyard Moscato d'Asti: a star for beginners and aperitifs, deliberately low for cellaring and savoury-meal versatility.
Sweet, gently fizzy and only 5.5% alcohol: one of the easiest, most crowd-friendly Italian wines to start with.
At about £15 it sits mid-pack for Moscato d'Asti, but it is the original single-vineyard cru, which earns the small premium.
Brilliant with desserts, fruit and blue cheese and a fine aperitif, but its sweetness rules out most savoury main courses.
A festive favourite for Christmas panettone and celebratory desserts, if not a cellar-trophy occasion wine.
Low alcohol and an easy price make it a fine aperitif or dessert pour, though sweetness limits everyday table use.
Made to drink fresh; Moscato d'Asti has no ageing requirement and loses its aromatic lift with time.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Asti denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Bricco Quaglia is bottled to drink fresh. The 2025 is the current release, and its peach-and-honey aromatics are at their most vivid in the first two years.
The 2025 is the current release of Bricco Quaglia. Like all Moscato d'Asti it is made for immediate drinking: enjoy it within two to three years of the vintage while the peach and honey aromatics are at their freshest.
The 2025 is the current release of Bricco Quaglia. Like all Moscato d'Asti it is made for immediate drinking: enjoy it within two to three years of the vintage while the peach and honey aromatics are at their freshest.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Calcareous marl with sandy veins, a south face at 300 metres and 40-year-old vines across Castagnole delle Lanze and Mango give the wine its freshness and aromatic lift.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Asti is in the DOCG tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Asti falls within Piedmont, covering Alessandria · Asti · Cuneo.
Wine route
2 days, around 90 km of driving · 6 stops
Open the driveWine route
2 days · 7 stops
Open the driveMade at Azienda Agricola La Spinetta, Castagnole delle Lanze.
Wine routes in the zone: Asti and Monferrato Route, Langhe Nebbiolo Route.
La Spinetta bottles only the Bricco Quaglia cru in Castagnole delle Lanze, off 40-year-old vines at 300m. Old-vine, single-site Moscato costs more to grow than blended Asti fruit.
The Rivetti family grows and bottles the wine itself in a limited run of about 110,000 bottles, so there is no negociant discount behind the £15 to £18 UK price.
Bricco Quaglia created the single-vineyard Moscato category in 1977; that pedigree and an 89-point critic standing support a premium over supermarket Moscato.
One cool tank fermentation, no oak and no bottle ageing keep cellar costs down, which is why even a cru Moscato d'Asti lands near £15 rather than £30.
Duty on a 5.5% wine is modest, but shipping from Piedmont, UK distribution margins and 20% VAT still add several pounds to the £15.01 shelf price.
Dishes that go with this wine
With residual sugar and only 5.5% alcohol, this is a dessert and aperitif wine. The matches below lean on its peach-and-honey sweetness and the fresh acidity that keeps it from cloying.
Moscato d'Asti's residual sugar sits level with panettone and pandoro instead of fighting them, while the 5.5% alcohol and fresh acidity stop the match turning heavy. This is the classic Piedmontese Christmas pour.
Try with: Panettone · Pandoro · Torta della Nonna · More pairings →
The wine's peach, apricot and honey aromatics echo the fruit and pastry cream of a crostata, and its sweetness matches theirs. The gentle fizz and acidity keep each forkful fresh rather than sugary.
Try with: Torta della Nonna · peach crostata · apricot tart · almond biscotti · More pairings →
Sweet wine against salty, savoury blue cheese is one of the oldest contrasts there is. Bricco Quaglia's honeyed sugar softens Gorgonzola's pungency, and the pear note shared by both bridges them.
Try with: Gorgonzola, pear, and walnut risotto · Gorgonzola dolce · toasted walnuts · More pairings →
The soft frizzante and bright acidity scrub the palate between bites of cheesecake or panna cotta, so the cream never coats. Low alcohol means the wine lightens the dessert rather than weighing it down.
Try with: Cheesecake · panna cotta · ricotta fritters · More pairings →
At 5.5% alcohol Bricco Quaglia is a natural aperitif: its acidity and faint fizz wake up fresh peaches, melon and almond biscotti without filling you up before the meal.
Try with: fresh peaches · melon and prosciutto · almond biscotti
A sweet, low-alcohol wine has nothing to answer big chilli heat or the char and fat of red meat. The sugar amplifies the burn and the wine disappears against savoury, tannin-friendly mains. Keep it for the dessert course.
Skip with: vindaloo · chilli con carne · grilled steak · barbecue ribs · Pairing guide →
Moscato d'Asti carries no ageing requirement and gains little from time in bottle. Buy the latest vintage rather than cellaring it, and drink within two to three years.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Made to drink fresh; Moscato d'Asti has no ageing requirement and loses its aromatic lift with time.
£14.00 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumA single-vineyard Moscato d'Asti from La Spinetta, a lightly sparkling, low-alcohol sweet white from the Asti zone of Piedmont.
Fragrant peach, apricot, orange blossom and sage, gently sweet and frothy with low 5.5% alcohol and fresh acidity.
Well chilled, as an aperitif or with dessert; it is best drunk young and fresh.
Fruit tarts, panettone, light pastries and fresh peaches; it also offsets spicy food.
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