Stella Rosa DOCG Moscato d'Asti Semi-Sweet Italian White Wine

For all the words in this name, one thing goes unsettled: whether the wine fizzes. Our grape notes flag exactly this. Grocery-store Moscato comes still, lightly fizzy and fully sparkling, and the notes say the label itself has to establish both the sweetness and the bubbles. Semi-Sweet establishes the sweetness; about bubbles, this name says nothing, so the fizz stays an open question we cannot settle from here.

132 shoppers have rated the wine, a total that only a small share of the 483 rated wines in our catalog ever collects, and they put it at 4.81; the median across everything we rate is 4.71. The price moves with the store: our checks found $12.99 at one end and $18.99 at the other, across nine stores, as of August 12, 2026.

The grape is where our notes say the most. Moscato is a family name for aromatic white grapes, Moscato Bianco among them, and the Asti consortium describes flower, peach, apricot and citrus-blossom aromas for Moscato Bianco. Our notes add that many familiar versions keep noticeable sweetness and lower alcohol, though we have no alcohol figure for this bottle. That leaves DOCG. On this label those four letters do one concrete thing: they tie the wine to the Asti zone, and we confirmed that placement. The Asti in Moscato d'Asti is not decoration; it is where this wine comes from.

That fizz question has an answer now. Stella Rosa's own product page states the carbonation plainly: lightly fizzy rather than fully sparkling, the middle style our notes above already named. The same page gives the grape precisely, muscat canelli, the Moscato Bianco clone behind the wine, finished at 5 percent alcohol, with a tasting note calling out “flavors of ripe pear and apple,” the producer's own words. The maker is named too: San Antonio Winery, Inc., the Los Angeles company that Stella Rosa's own brand history ties to the Riboli family and the Asti hills of Piedmont.

Our call: for the sweeter side of the aisle this is a well-documented choice, with a confirmed Asti origin, a named grape and carbonation level, one of the larger rating pools we track, and an average above the middle of the rated wines we cover. Pass if you drink dry or want a fully sparkling wine instead; this bottle is confirmed semi-sweet and lightly fizzy, the style stated plainly on both the label and the producer's own page.

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