On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 1:47:39 PM UTC-4, Bi!! wrote:
> On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 12:12:20 PM UTC-4, Mark Lipton wrote:
> > On 7/9/15 10:25 AM, Bi!! wrote:
> >
> > > I wish I could get my wife to drink German/Austrian wines. She won't
> > > drink anything with even a hint of sweetness. Sigh.
> > >
> >
> > I have much the same problem, Bill. I can get Jean to occasionally
> > drink a dry Riesling, but it takes some work. I recently opened an
> > off-dry Riesling Kabinett with BBQ ribs and she did see some merit in
> > the pairing, but couldn't drink the wine on its own.
> >
> > Mark Lipton
> >
> >
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> Same here Mark. I can get her to drink the occasional Alsatian with certain foods...her her acorn and roasted poblano bisque for example, but it's impossible to budge her on anything remotely sweet. I tend to have to wait until I'm with a group to pop a bottle of good off dry Kabinett.

I count myself lucky, Kabinett/Spatlese level Rieslings are among Betsy's favorites.