But have you heard of spumante before? Referring to Italian sparkling wine and meaning ‘foaming ... A corker for under a fiver, Asti is famously sweet in fragrance and flavour with ...

including everything from sparkling red wine to sparkling rosé. One of the most popular styles of spumante is Asti Spumante, a sweeter wine made primarily from the Moscato grape. The term ...

For an Italian sparkling wine closer to Champagne (yet, again, cheaper), look for Franciacorta, which is bottle-fermented and aged for a year and a half up to five years. Asti spumante ...