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Manfredi Moscato d'Asti 2017
Sweet lightly sparkling whiteItaly2017
By Daniel Min · Tasted 2020-04-13 · Published 2026-09-30 · Updated 2026-09-30
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4.0/5 — lower than Vivino's 4.1 average · world avg price US$5 · The Moscato d'Asti opened for dessert after barbecue and big wines, once we'd changed seats.
Neither Wine-Searcher nor Vivino lists a critic score for this wine (checked Sep 2026).
Market note: World average US$5 / 750ml (Wine-Searcher, ex-tax), last compiled in October 2018. Most bottles sold abroad today are US$8–11 (tax incl.). Wine-Searcher groups names such as Patrizi and Umberto Fiore under the same company; Patrizi Moscato d'Asti is US$15 (87). On Vivino, vintages from 2008 to 2021 with 30+ ratings score 3.5–4.1, with 2017 and 2021 highest at 4.1.
Father's note — Daniel Min
Original author of the notes“바베큐에 진한 와인들 후에. 자리와 세팅을 바꿔 디저트로 들어갔다. 잘 핸들링된 모스카토 다스띠를 한모금 머금은 뒤 잠시 시간을 보낸다. 입안에서 온도가 올라가며 허니가 지나가고 피니쉬로 산도 높은 과일들이 지나간다. 꽃향으로 마무리. 입가심에는 제격인듯 싶다. 요즘 벚꽃이 한창 만개 후에 지고 있는데 지는 석양과 함께 바라보니 이 와인 너무 아름답다.”
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“honey peach lemon grapefruit blossom 바베큐에 진한 와인들 후에~~ 자리와 세팅을 바꿔 디져트로 들어갔다. 잘 핸드링된 모스카토 다스띠를 한모금 머금은뒤 잠시 시간을 보낸다. 입안에서 온도가 올라가며 허니가 지나가고 피니쉬로 산도높은 과일들이 지나간다. 꽃향으로 마무리.. 입가심에는 제격인듯 싶다. 요즘 벚꽃이 한창 만개후에 지고 있는데 지는 석양과 함께 바라보니 이 와인 넘 아름답다.”
What I learned today: sweetness is only beautiful when sourness wipes it clean at the end.
Wednesday. Early in the evening, with few customers, Master Seo poured a pale golden wine into a small tulip glass. Fine bubbles clung to the side of the glass. Today's task: hold it in your mouth and count to ten. Swallowing comes after.
One, two, three. Cold and sweet. At four and five my mouth warmed and honey passed through. At six and seven a lemony, grapefruity sourness scraped along the side of my tongue. Eight, nine. Last of all, white flowers. At ten I swallowed and my mouth was left clean. From that clean finish a spring night opened.
Twenty-one, spring, a Monday night as the cherry blossoms were beginning to fall. Dad came back late from a barbecue with friends, a small cooler bag in his hand. Before even taking off his shoes he called me to the balcony. From the bag he took a cloth-wrapped bottle, half full and still cold. When he opened the window, petals were drifting down into the alley under the street lamp. He poured a little into two glasses and told me to hold a sip without swallowing and wait. I stood with my cheeks puffed out, looking only out of the window. I don't know the name of the bottle.
I opened the notebook to that date. It says that after barbecue and big wines, they changed seats and settings and moved on to dessert. Hold a sip for a while, and as it warms in the mouth honey passes, then high-acid fruits at the finish, rounding off with flowers. Perfect for clearing the palate. The last line: "Watching it with the setting sun, this wine is so beautiful." Four stars. The bottle was Manfredi Moscato d'Asti. I stuck on the wine-name Post-it. Dad saw the blossoms against the sunset, and a few hours later I saw the same blossoms under a street lamp. Maybe Dad broke off a glass's worth of that evening and carried it home.
Master Seo said Moscato d'Asti has about the alcohol of beer. The bubbles don't push hard like Champagne; they just cling quietly to the glass. This house, he said, began with a grandfather who loaded wine onto a horse-drawn cart and sold it round the valleys of Cuneo and Liguria.
After closing, I wrote the name on the fifteenth page of the new notebook. I split the aroma box into ten cells and filled one for each number. What I learned today: sweetness is only beautiful when sourness wipes it clean at the end.
What this wine is
Cantine Manfredi is in Farigliano, in Piedmont's Langhe. It began with one man. Giuseppe, known as 'Pin', bought vineyards and farmhouses in the Langhe hills and sold wine from a horse-drawn cart through the valleys of Cuneo and Liguria. The retailer Winedering dates this to the 1930s; the importer page (Mr Wheeler) puts it after the Second World War, when he began making Dolcetto. The sources disagree, so I couldn't confirm the year.
In the 1980s his sons expanded the business, selling across Europe and to Japan, Canada, the US and China, and kept buying good Langhe vineyards. The family still runs it. On Wine-Searcher, names such as Patrizi and Umberto Fiore sit under the same company.
Moscato d'Asti is made from Moscato Bianco in the Asti hills. Fermentation is stopped early to keep the grape's sweetness, so alcohol is low, around 5.5%, and the fizz is a gentle frizzante, softer than Champagne. The producer describes a bright straw colour, a fresh fruity nose and classic Moscato fragrance, and says it stays fresh for over a year — by that measure, this 2017 was drunk about two years after bottling.
What the world says
There are no critic scores. Wine-Searcher's US$5 world average was last compiled in October 2018, and today the wine sells in places like Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands for US$8–11 (tax incl.). Think of it as a neighbourhood-shop dessert wine in Europe.
On Vivino this vintage averages 4.1 from 58 ratings, and the label as a whole 3.9 from 2,150. Most raters gave it 4 (30), with 14 fives. Vintage averages range from 3.5 to 4.1, and 2017 sits at the top alongside 2021.
The aroma keywords run peach, apple and pear (21 mentions), honey (11), pineapple (5), lemon and grapefruit (5), and elderflower (4). Structure: acidity 2.6/5, intensity 2.4, fizz 1.1. Reviews tend to say 'sweet but not too sweet', 'good on hot days' and 'good with dessert'.
"Not too sweet with notes of peach, apricot and honey." — Vivino review, Mar 2019, 4.0
How I drank it
April 13, 2020, 4 stars. I wrote down honey, peach, lemon, grapefruit and blossom.
It came after barbecue and big reds. We changed seats and settings, moved on to dessert, and opened this bottle. I held a sip of the well-chilled Moscato d'Asti and waited. As it warmed in my mouth, honey passed, then high-acid fruits at the finish, rounding off with flowers. Perfect for clearing the palate.
The cherry blossoms were past their peak and starting to fall. Drinking it while watching them with the setting sun, the wine was beautiful. That line is the whole of the day's note. My 4 is almost exactly Vivino's 4.1 for this vintage. More than the score, the record of this bottle is the order of things while I held it and waited, and the light that evening.
Vivino community data
2017 vintage rating distribution (58 ratings, average 4.1)
| 5★ | 14 (24%) | |
| 4★ | 30 (52%) | |
| 3★ | 12 (21%) | |
| 2★ | 0 (0%) | |
| 1★ | 2 (3%) |
Most-mentioned aromas
| Family | Mentions | Top keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Tree fruit | 21 | peach 7 · apple 5 · pear 5 · apricot 2 · green apple 1 |
| Honey | 11 | honey 11 |
| Tropical fruit | 5 | pineapple 3 · lychee 1 · tropical 1 |
| Citrus | 5 | lemon 3 · citrus 1 · grapefruit 1 |
| Floral | 4 | elderflower 4 |
Structure: Acidity 2.6/5 · Intensity 2.4/5 · Fizziness 1.1/5
Average by vintage (all vintages: 2150 ratings, average 3.9)
| Vintage | Average | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3.7 | 51 |
| 2009 | 3.8 | 32 |
| 2010 | 3.7 | 105 |
| 2011 | 3.6 | 80 |
| 2012 | 3.5 | 42 |
| 2013 | 3.9 | 248 |
| 2014 | 3.6 | 59 |
| 2015 | 4 | 185 |
| 2016 | 4 | 203 |
| 2017 | 4.1 | 58 |
| 2018 | 3.9 | 299 |
| 2019 | 3.9 | 48 |
| 2020 | 3.9 | 78 |
| 2021 | 4.1 | 337 |
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What kind of wine is Manfredi Moscato d'Asti?
A Moscato d'Asti DOCG from Piedmont, Italy, made from Moscato Bianco. It's a gently sparkling sweet white at 5.5% alcohol; the 2017 scores 4.1 on Vivino (58 ratings). It's made by Cantine Manfredi of Farigliano.
How much does it cost?
Wine-Searcher's world average is US$5 per 750ml (ex-tax, compiled Oct 2018). There are no overseas sellers of the 2017; other vintages sell in Europe for about US$8–11 (tax incl.).
What food goes with it?
The Vivino community suggests fruity desserts and aperitifs. Reviews also mention apple-and-cinnamon desserts and shrimp. Serve it cold as a palate-cleanser at the end of a meal.
Why is Moscato d'Asti low in alcohol and only lightly fizzy?
Fermentation is stopped early to keep the grape's sweetness, so alcohol stays around 5.5%. Only a little of the carbon dioxide from fermentation is trapped, giving a gentle frizzante rather than Champagne-style bubbles. This bottle's Vivino structure is light too: fizz 1.1/5, intensity 2.4/5.
Links & sources
View on Vivino · Prices on Wine-Searcher
- Vivino — wine page and community data
- Winedering — Cantine Manfredi
- Mr Wheeler — Manfredi
- Wine-Searcher — 2017 Manfredi Moscato d'Asti DOCG
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