Moscato Passito — a delicious dessert wine
Tenuta Il Falchetto's Moscato Passito is an artisanal dessert wine of real elegance — crushed flowers, melon, apricot, and a year in French oak.
Written by The Wine Monk · Singapore
Pairing a dessert with an artisanal dessert wine may often feel like an unnecessary luxury. But if you pair it right, it will deliciously change your eating of desserts for ever.
Moscato Passito from Tenuta Il Falchetto, featured here, is one such wine.
Produced with 100% Moscato grapes from the extraordinary terroir of the Ciombi estate in Piedmont, this is Moscato in all its glory. The steep slopes facing South help these grapes reach perfect ripeness.
The best Moscato grapes in the Ciombi estate are selected and left to wilt on the vine for about thirty days. These grapes are then picked, fermented, and the finished wine rests for one year in little French oak barrels and a further six months in the bottle.
The result is an extremely elegant, rich, intense dessert wine with flavours of crushed flowers, melon and apricot. Goes really well with sweet desserts and cheese but also with foie gras.
(Remember the golden rule: the sweetness of the wine needs to be more than the sweetness of the dessert.)
We also carry the Ciombo Moscato d'Asti — Il Falchetto's single-vineyard Ciombo version, awarded Tre Bicchieri from Gambero Rosso multiple times.
