 In Chile is known as Red Moscatel.The grape has also been cultivated at Mudgee in New South Wales and California.Ampelographers suspect that Aleatico may be a dark-skinned variant of the French wine grape Muscat blanc à Petits Grains, which is a member of the extensive Muscat family of grapes, believed to be the oldest family of "Vitis vinifera" in the world.