You can find it on labels as Muscat, Muscatel, Moscatel or Moscato, but it’s the same grape.
MAY 19, 2011
There is no doubt that some of you that are by now a little over-chardonnayed. Oaked or unoaked, a certain tiredness sets into the palate. You could argue that the effect must be psychological rather than physiological, since the Chardonnay grape produces wines as diverse as Corton Charlemagne and Chablis. None the less, even the act of asking a wine waiter for the Chardonnay, New World or otherwise, eventually palls. You find yourself wondering ‘is there any other white wine that I can order?’
The obvious response to palate fatigue is to order a Sauvignon Blanc, but it’s possible that like me, that’s a transition you already made a while back. You could try a Semillon, they’re out there in increasing numbers. Or you could try something very different, like a Muscat. The Muscat grape is unusual in one respect – it’s a grape that tends to give its particular flavour to its wine no matter where it’s planted. To put it another way, it’s a vine that doesn’t reflect its terroir. You can find it on labels as Muscat, Muscatel, Moscatel or Moscato, but it’s the same grape. Don’t be confused here with Muscadet, which is a bone dry wine from France’s Loire valley.
It has an aromatic quality that most commonly is put to good effect in sweet dessert wines, but the range of wine types produced by the Muscat grape is large, from the very sweet to very dry. But whatever the style, the essentially floral, almost orangey, flavour of the grape will always be present in the wine. You may have come across the grape without knowing it if you’ve ever tasted Asti Spumante, the slightly sweet sparkling wine from northern Italy. Because of its distinctive flavour, of all the grape varieties, it’s the easiest one to spot in blind tastings.
Around the world the Muscat grape turns up in variety of guises. In Italy it makes spumante, in Spain it’s one of only three permitted grapes for sherry, in Greece they distil a Muscat wine to make their Metaxa brandy, in Peru they distil Muscat wine to make their national brandy, Pisco, and in Chile and Australia it’s widely planted for blending with other whites. Using the Muscat grape as part of cepage is fairly common, since even in small proportions it can add body and aroma to what might otherwise be flat and uninteresting wines.
Source: http://www.foodandwine.net/wine/wine0169.htm
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Visitors to Clark Philippines and Angeles City no longer suffer from lack of choices for places to eat out or wine and dine. Clark Philippines reviewed over 50 establishments and came up with three top choices in guide to best restaurant in Clark Freeport
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Topping the list is the famous fine-dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar located inside Mimosa Leisure Estate of Philippines Clark Freeport.
This restaurant in Pampanga Philippines is highly recommended by food critics and frequent diners in Manila as a place to wine and dine in Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone. Although it is a famous fine dining restaurant with an award winning 3000-line restaurant wine list, Yats Restaurant is also a popular restaurant for family with children. Aside from French Mediterranean haute cuisine, this restaurant also serves healthy food and the best vegetarian cuisines in the Philippines.
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How to get to this fine-dining restaurant in Clark Philippines? Once you get to Clark Freeport, go straight until you hit Mimosa. After you enter Mimosa, stay on the left on Mimosa Drive, go past the Holiday Inn and Yats Restaurant (green top, independent 1-storey structure) is on your left. Just past the Yats Restaurant is the London Pub.
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