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Date: 2005-04-02 10:11:00
From: Werner Müller

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

Hi Bjoern,
thank you for your clear and helpful statements. It's a shame that sweet wines have become synonymous for bad wines. In the old time - when the style of the wine was not defined by treatment in the cellar - the rule was: A good year offeres sweet wines, and a bad year the dry wines! It's so easy!
Cheers, Werner.

<bjoern.guelsdorff@hamburg.de> schrieb:
> Hi folks,
>
> we do have a misconception of sweet = low quality here, if I am not mistaken.
>
> While Liebfrauenmilch and Blue Nun are indeed very good examples of very bad wine, one needs to state that sweet wines can be gorgeous and that Germany produces great amount of great wines which are labelled or called lieblich, halbtrocken, feinherb, fruchtsüß, süß, edelsüß or the like.
>
> In fact, I'd even say that the greatness Riesling wines with residual sugar is just about to be recognized by parts of the global (including Germany) wine drinker's community. So don't count on a remarkable drop in production, let alone a production stop.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bjoern
>
> > A good question but one thing I do know is that the UK still import
> > loads of sweet Lieblich wine in the form of Blue Nun and Black Tower
> > so someone is drinking this rubbish and Germany is very happy to
> > oblige! The better class of Lieblich wines are still consumed in
> > great quantities here so I don't think there is any let up in
> > production unless someone else is better infomed.
> > Cheers
> >
> > Colin
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:21 +0200, Raymond <raymd@singnet.com.sg> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > This message was created using the Web-based forum :
> > > www.wein-plus.com/forum/
> > >
> >
>
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