Asti spumante

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noun

a sweet, sparkling Italian white wine with a muscat flavor.

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Origin of Asti spumante

<Italian: literally, effervescent Asti; see Asti, spume, -ant

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In Lombardy, Asti, a city of no great note in other respects, was famous for the same department of commerce.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Henry Hallam
In Asti he awaited his followers, and before he departed he had nigh upon 2,000 horse from beyond the mountains.
Villani's Chronicle|Giovanni Villani
He dined alone on deck; and sometimes in the evening he sat down with us to a glass or two, not more, of light Asti wine.
My Recollections of Lord Byron|Teresa Guiccioli

I pulled up to speak to him, but he seemed even then to wish to escape observation, so that I merely said, Jour-asti?
At the Court of the Amr|John Alfred Gray
But mother turned up her nose as she sipped her glass of Asti Spumante that accompanied the west-end dinner by way of champagne.
The Promise of Air|Algernon Blackwood