2016 Ca’ d’Gal Moscato d’Asti Canelli Sant'Ilario, Piedmont

This is an extraordinary, fine and restrained wine. The perfume offers gentle notes of grapefruit, white peach, sage, and boxwood, while the palate is fine-boned and incredibly delicate and floral, shot through with zesty, salty, crystalline freshness. The bubbles are very gentle. It’s a wine more than capable of expressing itself with complex food and especially salty foods. Of course, it can work with the classics—hazelnut-based desserts, fruit and cream tarts etc.—but it also has the intensity and mineral drive to partner with all kinds of savoury foods à la a good Mosel Spätlese.