Friday, September 23, 2011

What is the best dry white wine this holiday season?

My new father-in-law is a very picky wine drinker. He only likes European dry white wine. Which wine do you think is the best?|||That's a tough one. Not many European whites are very dry. Maybe something Italian?|||!!!!!!!!Emmiducki is flat out wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost all European white wines are dry or very dry with exception of many German and some Austrian and some late-harvested Bordeaux and Hungarian.





There are tens of thousands; who can say there is a best one?


But for us, if we absolutely had to pick we would most often choose an Alsatian, either a pinot gris or a reisling.|||Try the Kim Crawford Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2006. It's from NZ, not Europe, but you can impress him by telling him it's #40 on the Wine Spectator top 100 list with 92 points.





Wine Spectator describes it as follows:





Concentrated and complex, with vivid passion fruit, grapefruit and tangy peach flavors. Vibrant minerality and tangy lime juice acidity keep thumping through the finish. Drink now. 65,000 cases imported. 鈥揇S

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