Risata Moscato D'Asti Italy Low ABV Semi-Sparkling Wine

The name Moscato d'Asti tells you a grape and a place in Italy, but not the company standing behind the bottle. Risata fills that in on its own site: it says these wines belong to Prestige Beverage Group and are made in Italy from hand-harvested grapes. In our September 2026 checks the bottle ranged from $12.99 to $21.99.

Moscato is a family of aromatic white grapes, and grocery bottlings range from still to fully sparkling, so the label rather than the grape has to settle the fizz. This one names the fizz and the alcohol in its own title, Low ABV and Semi-Sparkling, though it does not spell out the sweetness. For aroma, the Asti consortium points to flower, peach, apricot and citrus-blossom in Moscato Bianco. This bottle, which 8 shoppers rated 4.88 out of five, sits a little above the 4.71 median among the wines we rate. The title names the fizz and, with its Low ABV wording, lower alcohol, but not the sweetness. That is the one thing to check on the bottle before you buy.

Risata's own product page settles the sweetness the title leaves out: the producer describes the wine as "seductively sweet, boasting juicy stone fruit, tart citrus and floral honey flavors," fresh and fragrant, made from 100 percent Moscato Bianco di Canelli grapes at the 5.5 percent alcohol the bottle's name already promises. The producer introduced Moscato d'Asti to the United States in 2006 and, in the producer's own words, it has grown into the most sought-after Moscato d'Asti in the country. Outside reviewers have recognized it too: the Beverage Tasting Institute gave it 92 points and a gold medal as Best Moscato d'Asti in 2020, and The Somm Journal scored it 90 points.

Our call: a low-stakes pick if the aromatic Moscato style the Asti consortium describes, in the semi-sparkling form the title itself declares, is what you came for; the producer's own account confirms a sweet style with stone fruit and floral honey notes, it sits in the cheaper half of the sparkling wines we track, and the producer states its grapes are hand harvested in Italy. Pass if you buy on shopper ratings; few shoppers have scored it so far, even though their scores land above the middle of the rated wines we cover.

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