Any white grape can be used to make orange wine. The most common varieties used are Pinot Gris, Zibbibo (Muscat), Xarel-lo, and Macabeo, as well as a number of Georgian varieties (Rkatsiteli ...

Muscat: This is a sweeter white wine, and the grape of the same name is the dominant component in Italy's Asti Spumante. It has a very floral/spicy aroma and is a normally quite sweet wine.

Japanese consumers don’t have to hear about the increasing popularity of the Shine Muscat through the grapevine, but can see it in the clusters of yellow-green grapes packing produce sections.

A grape variety called Shine Muscat is helping to change perceptions that farming isn’t lucrative, say officials in Yamanashi Prefecture. That may explain a surge in new mostly young farmers to ...