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Riesling is back. The grape that produces some of hte world's finest white wnes sadly fell out of favour with Americans in the 1980s and 1990s but happily is attracting many new admires today.
The wines, especially those made in a dry fashion, taste better than ever, making this a great time to discover them.
Now is a particularly good time because dry Rieslings can be ideal summer wines. Light and lithe, sometimes ethereally so, good examples also taste bright and bracing, almost nervy.
The interplay of ripe fruit flavor and tense acidity, each element balanced against the other on what seems like a sensory high-ware, makes them wonderfully refreshing just to right choice on hot, steamy midsummer evenings.
Paul Lukacs, The Washington Times, July 5, 2006
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