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Oxymoron example #420... ...dry wine. 2007 Riesling~Dry $16.00 Old Mission Peninsula GOLD MEDAL Great Lakes Wine Comp (1 of only 2 awarded for Dry Riesling) Using the word "dry" to describe a liquid beverage presents interesting challenges. To make matters worse, this wine we call dry isn't really dry in the puritanical sense. Yes, it has some residual sugar. Now, I hear the murmur from the crowd of wine purists gathering their stones. But I ask you...who amongst you has not enjoyed the supple mouthfeel of a brightly acidic wine balanced with the seductive caress of a little sugar? What is more important - creating a wine of statistical chastity for the sake of naming a wine dry, or revealing the equilibrium found in a wine that presents a dry palate because of, and inspite of, the depth that a little sugar adds? I guess I was feeling guilty. Call it justification or a request for forgiveness. But had I not confessed, you would have enjoyed that beautiful, natural fructose created by the vine itself and continued to think that dry really means dry. All we really crave is balance. Can I take off the hair shirt now? Wine Geek Techno Speak Harvest: 4 tons off 1600 plants in hard packed stone and clay on Old Mission. Harvest TA: 8 g/l Harvest pH: 3.00 Harvest Brix: 20.7 Bottled TA: 7.7 g/l Bottled pH: 2.90 Bottled RS: 11 g/liter Alcohol: 11.3% Cases bottled: 217 |