Muscat
Muscat is a fascinating grape, with numerous varieties of varying colors from white to near black planted throughout the world. You can use Wine Enthusiast’s online Buying Guide to find the top-rated Muscat among our extensive Muscat wine reviews and easy-to-use database. Our Muscat reviews will give you a general idea what to expect from wines made from Muscat, and will help you find one that best suits your needs.
Chambers Rosewood Vineyards NV Rare Muscat (Rutherglen)
- Cellar Selection
- $300
Not a Cellar Selection in the traditional sense of requiring additional aging, this venerable wine (it contains some material over 100 years old) is ready to drink now, but should hold in the bottle indefinitely. It’s dark coffee-brown, with delectable aromas of rancio, pressed flowers, molasses and honey, yet despite enormous concentration avoids excessive weight…
— J.C.
(2/1/2011)
Donnafugata 2008 Ben Ryé Zibibbo (Passito di Pantelleria)
- $40
Ben Ryé is always a fabulous dessert wine from Pantelleria (an island off the coast of Sicily) and this expression shows beautiful liveliness and personality. You’ll get aromas of stone fruit, apricot, honey, almond paste and even a spicy touch of fresh ginger. It feels smooth, rich and totally decadent.
— M.L.
(12/31/2010)
Donnafugata 2009 Ben Ryé Zibibbo (Passito di Pantelleria)
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $40
Ben Ryé can claim to be both a cult wine and a commercial wine, and that’s a very difficult goal to achieve. Sweet, syrupy and crisp at the same time, this Sicilian dessert wine opens with a luminous amber color and intense aromas of prune, dried apricot, honey, caramel and custard cream. It’s seriously delicious.
— M.L.
(12/31/2011)
Donnafugata 2010 Ben Ryé Zibibbo (Passito di Pantelleria)
- Editors' Choice
- $40
Ben Ryé is one of the 10 best dessert wines made in Italy. From the sun-drenched island of Pantelleria, this is made using Zibibbo grapes that are air-dried. It’s thickly extracted and syrupy sweet, with intense aromas of apricot, honey and marzipan. The kick of fresh acidity at the end is nothing short of brilliant.
— M.L.
(12/1/2012)
EOS 2006 Tears of Dew - Late Harvest Moscato (Paso Robles)
- $22
With 21% residual sugar, this is an enormously sweet wine, one of the most honeyed of the vintage. A little sugar goes a long way, of course, but this wine also charms with rich, powerful apricot, peach and vanilla custard flavors, perfectly balanced with crisp acidity. With consistently high scores over the years, Tears of Dew has taken a place in the front ranks…
— S.H.
(4/1/2008)
Campbells NV Rutherglen Muscat (Rutherglen)
- Best Buy
- $10
This wine is so intensely textured and flavored, you’ve got to brace yourself. Packed with ultra sweet honey, peach, dried apricot, toast, walnut, coffee, caramel, licorice and sesame notes, it holds onto the palate with bright acidity and length. Massive.
— J.M.
(12/1/2002)
Novella 2003 Muscat Canelli (Paso Robles)
- Best Buy
- $10
Paso Robles is making a play for the most congenial home in California to sweet Muscat, under any name, and this wine shows why. It’s crisp and acidic, sweet but not cloying, and offers wonderful flavors of mangoes, papayas and honey-sweetened peach pie. Addictively good, and the alcohol is only 11.5%.
— S.H.
(11/1/2005)
José Maria da Fonseca NV Moscatel Roxo 20 years (Moscatel de Setúbal)
Called Moscatel Roxo because of the slight red tinge to the old gold color of the wine, this is a stunning, mature wine, whose youngest component is 20 years old. It is deep, with a tannic element, and a dry, acidic streak over the intense sweetness. This is a beautiful wine, one of the world’s classics. Imported by Commonwealth Wine & Spirits Inc.
— R.V.
(11/15/2005)
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