How should a Good Reisling taste

[Innkeeper]

Let me take a shot at that. All wine grapes contain sugar. When fermatation occurs the sugar is turned into alcohol. When all the sugar is fermented the wine is dry, i.e. contains no more sugar. If the grape is such that it shows well as sweet as well as dry, then either the fermentation is stopped before all the sugar is converted or fresh juice (containing sugar) is added to the dry wine. Riesling is one of the rare grapes that shows well as a dry wine or with many degrees (percentages) of residual sugar (RS).



[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 02-10-2006).]