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Old 04-03-2005, 12:38 AM
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If you like white wines that are sweeter and don't pack a wallop in alcohol content, may I suggest German wines?

Recommend the wines from the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer region. Rheinhessen wines aren't as sweet.

German wine has some of the most convoluted and complicated grading systems but once you learn it, you can pick out a decent wine to suit your budget and taste. Here's a link to the classifications: http://www.germanwine.de/english/gui...categories.htm

My usual German 'plonk': Zeller Schwarze Katz from the town of Zell am Mosel, not far from where I was stationed at Spangdahlem.

Piesporter Goldtröpfchen is another one I recommend.

Most expensive Mosel wine: Bernkasteler Doktor, from the town of Bernkastel-Kues. The orignal vineyard was once owned by the town doctor, and it was a favorite of the late German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (a native of Bernkastel). Only grown in that vineyard and commands premium prices (well over $30 a bottle for the lowest grade).
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