Castello Del Poggio Moscato

Castello Del Poggio puts a single word to work on the label, Moscato, and that word names a family of aromatic white grapes rather than any one grape. On a grocery shelf a Moscato might be a still wine, a lightly bubbling one, or fully sparkling; the producer's own technical sheet for this bottle lists it as a still, semi-sweet wine, distinct from the Sparkling Moscato it also bottles under the same Secret Garden Collection. It ranged from $10.99 to $19.99 across our September 2026 checks.

The Asti consortium ties Moscato Bianco, one grape in that family, to aromas of peach, apricot and citrus blossom, and guides note that many familiar versions keep noticeable sweetness and lower alcohol. ZONIN1821 owns Castello Del Poggio and imports the bottle through Zonin USA, and the 6 shoppers who have rated it put it at 4.83, above the 4.71 median among rated wines in our catalog.

Castello Del Poggio's own history page traces the name to a 12th-century fortress in the Asti area that once belonged to the aristocratic Bunéis family, and the estate's 185-plus acres today grow Moscato mainly in the Costigliole d'Asti municipality. The producer's technical sheet for this exact bottle, though, gives a different address: Provincia di Pavia, a broader zone outside that home estate, with the wine finished at 7 percent alcohol in a semi-sweet style. The two pages on the producer's own site do not agree on where these particular grapes grow, one telling the estate's Asti story and the other naming Pavia on the label copy itself.

Our call: reach for it if a sweeter, aromatic white with real estate history behind the brand is what you want; Castello Del Poggio's 12th-century Asti story is genuine, and the 6 shoppers on record have pushed the average above the median for the wines we track. Pass if you want the label's own paperwork to agree on where the grapes grew; the producer's technical sheet for this bottle names Provincia di Pavia, not the Asti estate its history page describes.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.