Origin: South Africa-Western Cape region
Grape: 100% Muscat
Alcohol: 10%
Price point: $10.00
Year Reviewed: 2017
So as my daughter is learning about wine, she prefers those sweet ones. To be fair to all wine lovers, I am rating Jam Jar Sweet White from South Africa. She loved their sweet Jam Jar Sweet Shiraz and wanted to try another wine by this manufacturer, so here it is. It is sweet alright. Easy drinking, refreshing and well balanced Moscato. I keep telling myself that most new wine drinkers begin with sweet wines and eventually move to Merlots and other grapes.
The Muscat family of grapes include over 200 grape varieties belonging to the Vitis vinifera species that have been used in wine production and as raisin and table grapes around the globe for many centuries. Their colors ranges from white (such as Muscat Ottonel), to yellow (Moscato Giallo), to pink (Moscato rosa del Trentino) to near black (Muscat Hamburg). Muscat grapes and wines almost always have a pronounced sweet floral aroma. The breadth and number of varieties of Muscat suggest that it is perhaps the oldest domesticated grape variety, and there are theories that most families within the Vitis vinifera grape variety are descended from the Muscat variety.