Sweet or Dry? Understanding a Tricky Wine Topic

Sweet or Dry? Understanding a Tricky Wine Topic
Many popular pink wines (varietal roses) have traces of residual sugar. Natali Ximich/Shutterstock
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Decades ago, a German winemaker pulled a label-less bottle of riesling from a fabric bag, pulled the cork, and asked me to taste it.

It was a time when most imported German rieslings were sweet and the winemaker asked me, “How much sugar do you think this wine has?”

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