Sweet wine drinkers take heart. My
experience suggests that if sweet wine
makes you the happiest, you may have
a super-sensitive palate to which the
bitterness of black coffee or deep red
wine are like bullies on the palate’s
playground.
Pro tip: Similar white wines will list
alcohol by volume at 11.5 percent or
less — the lower percentage, the sweeter
the wine — they are usually labelled as
Riesling, Gewürztraminer or Muscat.
Dry white wines, by contrast, like
Barnard Griffin’s delicious Albarino
(barnardgriffin.com - $20) play off of
flavor differently — often extending
flavors from one’s plate to last longer
or seem more intense (think water after
jalapenos).
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