Head to Head

Cantina Gabriele Moscato 2004 vs. Borgo Regalle Moscato D'Asti 2004

**The Taste Test**
Muscat	Wine	Muscat
Cantina Sant'Andrea	Winery	Dogliotti
2004	Year	2004
Italy	Country	Italy
8.99	Price	14.99
2.5	Color	2
A delicate golden straw color. It's much darker and fuller than the Borgo Regalle.	Note	A very light yellow paper color with a hint of green, almost like the inside of a green apple. The Gabriele is creamier in appearance.
5.5	Aroma	5
Very sweet and fruity with intense apricot aroma's and milder tropical fruit scents behind it. It's just a bit too sticky sweet smelling for my tatste. A slight edge here to the Gabriele because I really didn't like the musty, wet cardboard smell in the Borgo Regalle.	Note	A mild citrus scent of lemon and lime with a slight mustyness behind it that costs it points. Neither wine really shines here.
7.5	Taste	8.5
Very sweet and light with apricot and pear flavors. Very slightly bubbly. It's not a sophisticated flavor and not particularly special.	Note	Sharp little bubbles introduce this very different Moscato. It has a very light and unobtrusive flavor with mild tastes of green apples, pears and green grapes. I actually like this taste better than the Gabriele. If only it were a little stronger.....
15.5	Total	15.5

**A final word....**
I keep looking for a Moscato that I'll like and I haven't come up with one yet. Both of these wines come up short for different reasons. They both have their strong points but are both plagued by weaknesses that bring them down. The Gabriele is too sweet, even for a dessert wine, and has such a strong apricot flavor that it drowns out anything else the wine is trying to say. The Borgo Regalle has a much nicer flavor but you can't assault a wine drinkers nose witha musty aroma before they even taste the wine. It's a fatal flaw. I'll just have to keep trying.....

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