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German| Date: 2005-07-13 21:51:48 |
| From: Gerhard Präsent |
Subject: Re: What Does It Mean By Fruity In |
| Just a short statement: "fruity" is not necessarily the oposite of dry - it just means "full of fruit" or "fruit is in the foreground" - it can be dry, semi-dry or faily sweet. Other adjectives can be "minerally", "smokey", "toasty", "woody", "animalic", "vegetal" etc. - it is just a description of the character of bouquet or taste, not of sweetness or dryness. Gerhard ----- Original Message ----- From: <Gpduf@aol.com> To: <wineforum@wein-plus.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:23 PM Subject: [wineforum] Re: What Does It Mean By Fruity In > > In a message dated 7/13/2005 8:56:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > wkmueller@t-online.de writes: > > Hi everybody, > I don't want to comment on the definitions of "dry", "sour", "bitter", > "fruity"and "sweet" because it may become a purly academical problem. > The last statement, however, is definitely wrong: I know very many first > class German winemakers and none of them has the slightest problem to > drink his own modern dry wine with pleasure! Try it in the Saar-valley > or even in Rheinhessen! > Cheers, > Werner. > > > > I may not know that many winemakers but I do drink German wines with German > winemakers occasionally. > > The majority of them will only drink their traditional wines. On an average > day tasting wines, the trocken weins will be sampled and a couple of bottles > of auslese (two or three gold capsule) will disappear. > > It is possible to sell dry German Rieslings in the American market but the > highest demand is for QbA with high sugar content, sold as "fruity/semi-dry". > > The dry wines are certainly a great alternative to the Chard's and are also, > when carefully produced, superior to the best ones. > > However, the market is limited. If I were to pick what seems to qualify to > most people as a "dry" German wine I would probably say a Halbtrocken > Kabinett. > > The key is always "fruitiness" which is impossible to express without > residual sugar. > > g > > More infos: www.wein-plus.com > Unsubscribe: www.wein-plus.com/abmelden.htm More infos: www.wein-plus.com Unsubscribe: www.wein-plus.com/abmelden.htm |
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