HM’s Food & Wine Magazine

“When you are in Rome, be like Romans”. It is completely true and interesting as it reveals the pattern of habits that is inevitable to change. This is the point where the hard core critics fail with their criticism. In my initial phase of come back to Nepal my lecture used to indulge people about wine not being called sweet rather defining as fruity. I even add my point saying fruity to define the taste of freshly squeezed fruit juice. In other hand sweet is like having sugar syrup which doesn’t make you so overwhelming. Lot of people came to Nepal and their quest for selling dry wines is going vague. Now wine makers visiting Nepal are sending wines with added sugars to match with the palate of Nepalese. I would say dry wines are limited to wine connoisseurs and foreigners who love true wine. Therefore my quest this time is to define “What exactly is sweet wine?” breaking my traditions of calling it fruity wine adjusting myself to soil of Nepal.
I was reading an article that talked about wine being sweeter than others. The answer was simple; there is no global answer to it actually. It provides the example of Grape Variety Riesling which can be extremely sweet with late harvest and oddly dry with early harvest. There is no doubt about having natural sugar content in grapes but that plucked before time can not provide that sweetness but is overpowered by the sour character. In other hand plucked late provides reduction in water content providing sugar character to be strongly noticed. The whole Europe loves dry wine which means the sugar content is up to 4gm of sugar in one liter. In other hand having above 45 gm of sugar content in one liter can be considered as the extremely sweet wine. Today in our market we often see the Bordeaux wine with Tag “moelleux” as most loved house wine of Nepal.
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