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Date: 2005-04-01 14:15:48

Subject: Hi Fellow Wine Buddies, I've a Question

> Considering the global trend for Dry wines, do you guys or ladies
> think the Lieblich style for Riesling will remain viable?

Unfortunately most of the exported semi-sweet German wines is of rather low
quality (Liebfrauenmilch etc.)
But selling quantities indicate that there MUST be a market for it somewhere
(in GB?).

> Will Germany stop the production of fruity wine (a mildly sweet
> Spatlese for example) in the near future?

I do not think most growers (or cooperatives) will STOP production - and if
the quality is good and the bottles sell, why should they? IMHO they should
try to raise the qualitative level of these wines ....

MY personal problem is that many German wines are labelled as DRY
(trocken) - and they don´t taste really dry, because the residual sugar is
at the upper limit of 9gr/liter.
If I´d like to order a "DRY Riesling Spätlese" I have no idea if I´ll get a
really dry wine - or one that tastes "semi-dry" (and I much prefer
completely dry white wines ... or very sweet ones on the other hand).

But the semi-sweet wines have their fans, especially in Germany itself, they
are a good company to some dishes, and many deserve really high ratings - no
doubt.

Gerhard
[from AUSTRIA .... we also have world-class-wines here ..... ;-) ]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond" <raymd@singnet.com.sg>
To: <wineforum@wein-plus.de>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: [wineforum] Hi Fellow Wine Buddies, I've a Question

>
> Hi
> Considering the global trend for Dry wines, do you guys or ladies
> think the Lieblich style for Riesling will remain viable?
> Will Germany stop the production of fruity wine (a mildly sweet
> Spatlese for example) in the near future?
> Regards
> Raymond
> Singapore.
>
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