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Posted on 02/27/2006 7:02:59 PM PST by NautiNurse
Reisling is too sweet for my taste.
Neat!
It's good PR for Finger lakes wines.
I'll have to see if the Uncork NY store carries this!
http://www.newyorkwines.org/winecountry/fingerlakes/index.asp?p=41&cwid=1
That would be a no-no for Mitt Romney !
Ice wine is even sweeter -- but it makes such a good desert wine.
Very impressive for a relatively new wine maker. Enjoy!
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Wonder if "Rapid Edward" (TM Colin) was in on this......
That's a great winery! If anyone happens to make it this way, I would suggest a visit.
I have to be parochial and put a plug in for Minnesota wines.
Yes, that's right. I said Minnesota wines!
There are a number of areas in the St Croix and Mississippi River Valleys that are conducive towards growing wine grapes.
Alexis Bailly Vineyards makes a fairly decent ice wine. For those of you interested, here's a link:
http://www.abvwines.com/icewine.html
Ice Wine is translated from the German "Eiswein", a wine of longstading tradition made from grapes that are allowed to freeze on the vine before harvesting. The water in the fruit is bound as frozen crystals, or "ice", and removed, leaving an extra sweet juice to ferment into wine. As water makes up over 40% of the composition of the grape you can easily see that the production of a wine like this is extremely limited and rare. Here are a few suggestions for service:
Always serve well chilled - a cordial glass works best
Keep an opened bottle, corked, in the fridge for up to a week
Serve after dinner by itself for a light and easy dessert
Serve with fruit tarts, such as a tart tartin make with pears or apples
A bowl of fresh seasonal fruits splashed with a little "ice"
Biscotti or similar cookie, deliciously dipped in a glass of the wine
Dried fruit compote
Desserts with nuts When matching sweet wines with dessert try to remember to choose desserts that are less sweet for the most complimentary flavors.
"highly intellectual ping list."
That's me! It's so much better than that drunk and stupid list I used to be on.
I find it too sweet also. What do you prefer in white wine?
I usually go with a chardonnay.
lol - last time I fired up the ping list, I altered the words to, "usually intellectual."
For whites, I prefer sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio/gris or **gasp** a white Bordeaux.
I would be interested in trying this at some point. My first intro to wine was a Jo-berg. Chateau St. Michelle to be exact. It would be good to revisit.
There are some good Riesling's that aren't too sweet and are very good wines.
The right Riesling can work well with salmon sometimes. True, there are plenty of cheap, too sweet Rieslings.
Ice wine is a dessert wine.
I like Riesling. I wish more people liked it and served it. Of course I drink lots of other wines too. My mama didn't raise no fools.
I would have enjoyed reading the governors were served Danish wine.
If the Danes produce any wine that is.
I'll have to try sauvignon blanc, havent had that in years.
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