looking for a type of wine I will like.

[mrdutton]

Wow, Drew...... I kinda was thinking that you and I had somewhat similar palates. But after reading your comment on Rancho Zabacco Zinfandel, I am not so sure.

Thick, fruity and hedonistic, yes. Sweet?

Are we talking about different wines here? Oh, I know. You were kidding!

Cpurvis, I took a look at the sweetness link you posted:

(www.wineontheweb.com/consumer_advice/thesugarsand/thesugarsand.html)

And I am not sure I can agree with the stated opinion. Two sugars equals Cru Beaujolais. I take one to two sugars in my coffee everyday. Cru Beajolais is no way that sweet. It is a light to medium bodied wine with lots of very nice up-front fruit on the nose and the palate. However, I am hard pressed to find the sugar!! It sure does not taste sweet to me.

Additionally, the article makes no mention at all of the very fine light to medium bodied red wines from the Rhone, or the wonderful "Rhone-like" blends available from California and Australia (Like Ca del Sol Big House Red, Cline Cotes du Oakley, Rosemount GSM to name a few).

All of the above mentioned reds are dry but present so much fruit to the palate, IMHO, that they may "tend" to taste sweet.

I have to agree with Roberto in the posting you noted:

www.wines.com/ubb2/Forum37/HTML/000878.html

The last time I tasted vinegar in a wine, I threw it down the drain because it was no good. There is a whole lot of difference between vinegar and dry wine, for sure.

Hopefully the person tasting the wine was tasting some acid along with some tannin and was confusing vinegar with the zing from acid and the astringency from the tannin. But we'll not know that until we get a reply listing the reds that were sampled.

Heavy, thick, dark red, sweet wines? Sounds like Port to me..... eh Barnsey?

And that is my opinion on the subject....