Semi Sweet / Moderately dry

[Innkeeper]

Hi Jpy, and welcome to the Wine Board. We can sympathize with you. Instead of getting easier, things are getting more complicated. Those from Alsace used to all be bone dry except for late harvest bottlings. Not any more. Germany still gives the best information indicating whether the wine is troken, kabinett, spatlese, etc. Australia is mostly dry to bone dry. Most people call just dry up to 1% RS.

When it comes to America, right now I wouldn't get any Riesling except from the Finger Lakes in New York. Most of the producers there will tell you on the label or at the winery if you ask. They can ship to you now, I think! The wines from there are dry (up to .5% RS) or just say Riesling. The latter run .5-1.5% RS usually.

Like, I said, we can sympathize with you. Beyond the above it is mostly trial and error.

[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 01-28-2006).]