On Tuesday, Aldi announced shoppers' must-have items in the chain's fifth Fan Favorites Awards. I don't think I'd buy the Friendly Farms cottage cheese or the Belletti Moscato rosé again. I could see ...

The subject for today is sheer pleasure. I will write about pleasure, and it was a nearly absurd pleasure doing the “research.” The pleasure is of a ripe, frankly sensual, quality, so look out, ...

Moscato, and its bumptious, worldwide grape family, generally known in English as "Muscat," may or may not (depending on which dictionary you consult) share a common root with the word "musky-- but ...

Moscato d’Asti, a light Italian sparkling wine from Piedmont, offers a delightful alternative to heavy dessert wines. With its gentle sweetness and fragrant notes of peach and honey, it perfectly ...

In my last column’s wine recommendations, I referred to Moscato d’Asti as the happiest wine. For me, it is as joyful a glass as you could hope to have, so it surprises me that more people do not ...

In the hierarchy of wine-world respectability, Moscato often sits somewhere between “guilty pleasure” and “entry-level curiosity.” To many sommeliers, it’s too sweet, too simple, too unserious. Yet ...