Pairing wine with very sweet desserts presents a unique challenge due to the need to balance the sweetness levels without overwhelming the palate. Photo by Jill Burrow When done correctly, the ...

The same wine with 1.2% residual sugar will be noticeably sweet with no varietal character while our Jana Riesling with the ...

It glimmers like liquid gold in a glass. It tastes of the sun and earth, honeyed with sweet citrus and ripe apricot. The Far Niente "Dolce" is like no other wine the diner at Cafe Annie had sipped ...

Some average sweetness levels include domestic Chardonnay, 6 g/l; mass-marketed reds, 15 g/l; Coca ... in a Maifest celebration hosted by Wines of Germany and BottlesUp! wine shop (3164A N ...

German wines are probably the most misunderstood in the United States. Part of this is the fault of German winemakers, on two fronts. They have stubbornly refused to adapt their intimidating ...

The wines are not all sweet and they’re not all riesling (or white wine, for that matter). While you can spend a lot of money (usually on riesling), a lot of truly great German wines come in ...

Over the years, I’ve been asked many times what my favorite wine is. That’s a tough call, I like almost all of them and it depends on what’s on the menu. I am partial to red wines. But with ...

German wine won new fans on the German market when it turned its back on the medium dry and sweet wines that used to proliferate and started offering well-made wines described as trocken, or dry.

I am more concerned about wines with higher-than-normal sweetness levels than alcohol levels. Residual sweetness has crept up in many American (and other international) red wines in the past ...