Oliver Winery Blueberry Moscato Wine

What is a blueberry Moscato, exactly? Half of that question has a documented answer, the half about who makes it. Oliver Winery says it began in the 1960s as a hobby for William Oliver, an Indiana University law professor, and opened commercially in 1972 just northwest of Bloomington, Indiana. 95 shoppers have rated this bottle, a count only a small share of the wines we rate ever reaches. Their average is 4.78 out of five. The corresponding figure across everything we rate is 4.71.

The other half of the question, what is actually in it, has less documentation behind it. Moscato itself is well described: the Asti consortium describes flower, peach and apricot aromas for Moscato Bianco, and our grape notes add that many familiar versions keep noticeable sweetness with lower alcohol. Blueberry is a word in the product name, and the winery's own account now closes that gap: real blueberry juice, not a flavoring. The Moscato half of the name is documented, and now so is the blueberry half.

Oliver's own account for this bottle settles what the name leaves open. The winery says the wine blends Muscat Canelli and Muscat Alexander grapes from West Coast vineyards with real blueberry juice under its 'Refreshingly Real' line, with no artificial flavorings, and it markets the result as packed with 33 blueberries per bottle. The finished wine comes in at 6.8 percent alcohol, described by the winery as semi-sweet with a light, natural spritz rather than a still or fully sparkling style. Its own tasting notes point to a light body with real blueberry flavor, honey and lychee, and the wine has picked up outside recognition too: an 86-point Best Buy rating from the 2021 Beverage Testing Institute and a Best of Class Double Gold at the Indy International Wine Competition. Oliver's vice president of winemaking, Rob Warren, has said the winery insists on real fruit in its wines 'despite the increased expense,' the producer's words, calling quality the priority.

Our call: buy it if you want a blueberry-named Moscato with real breadth of feedback; the rating count here is one most of the wines we cover never reach, the average sits above the middle of the rated wines we cover, and the winery gives a dated account of its Indiana beginnings plus a detailed account of what is actually in the bottle, real blueberry juice blended with Muscat grapes at 6.8 percent alcohol, semi-sweet with a light spritz. Pass if you want an unflavored Moscato on its own; the blueberry juice is real and documented, but this is still a fruit-blended wine, not the grape by itself.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Aug 17, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.