never had wine; please help

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Madeira is a fortified (with brandy) dessert wine from the Islands of the same name. It is very sweet and very high in alcohol. It is a dessert wine, and has imitators in California for much lower prices.

Brut is dry, and demi sec is quite sweet, with extra dry in-between.

American Gewurztraminer is sweeter than that from Alsace unless it says "dry" on the label.

The best wine with Japanese food is Sake. Here is a whole thread full of information about Sake: http://wines.com/ubb2/Forum2/HTML/000831.html