What does Riesling Taste like? Ive heard its sweet? If it is, how sweet is it?

Answer 1

Riesling can be made in a dry style (Alsatian) to super sweet late harvest style (trockenbeerenauslese) in which grapes were individually handpicked, affected by botrytis, and were raisined, having little juice and high sugar levels. Riesling flavors vary from apple, pear, peach, and apricot being the sweetest and having a honeyed flavor. I hope that helps.

Answer 2

It depends on how the winemaker makes the wine. Some Rieslings are sweet but there are also dry and off-dry Rieslings. In Germany, where a lot of Rieslings come from they are called Trocken and Halb Trocken (dry & off-dry respectively). If you do go for a sweeter Riesling it will be no more than a sugar code of 2 so, although it will taste sweeter than say a Pinot Gris or Pinot Grigio it's not really sweet. However, when looking for a bottle of wine that does say Riesling on the label, make sure that you don't pick up a Riesling Icewine because that will be very sweet.

Answer 3

Rieslings have a floral aroma. They range from very dry and crisp to intensely sweet depending on where it is from. German Riesling is slightly sweet and balanced with some acidity. California Riesling tends to be sweeter.

This type of wine goes well with chicken, fish, pork, and spicy foods. I especially like it with spicy foods because it's light and easy to drink to cool the spiciness down.

Rieslings is one of the types of wine that originate from Germany. Great Rieslings are also produced in New York, Washington, California, and Australia.

Answer 4

Riesling
[REEZ-ling, REES-ling]
Riesling is considered to be one of the world's great white-wine grapes and produces some of the very best white wines. It's a native of Germany, where it's believed to have been cultivated for at least 500-and possibly as long as 2,000-years. The Riesling grape's ability to retain its acidity while achieving high sugar levels is what creates wines with considerable aging potential. Riesling wines are DELICATE but COMPLEX and are characterized by a SPICY, FRUITY flavor (that's sometimes reminiscent of peaches and apricots), a flower-scented BOUQUET, and a long FINISH. Riesling is vinified in a variety of styles ranging from DRY to very sweet.

There are also several levels of sweetness in German Rieslings
there is cabinet or standard table wine
then there is Spatlese or late picked
next is AUSLESE which means very late picked (grapes have usually had one frost)
then there is BEERENAUSLESE, which the grape has completely frozen once and then thawed. the last is TROCKENBEERENAUSLESE this is a dry wine made from BEERENAUSLESE juice. Trocken meaning dry.

Answer 5

Well, it depends. Are you talking about German Riesling? Regular Riesling is sweet, but not overpowering. It is harvested earliest in the year. Spatlese is harvested later (at the first frost) which is sweeter than regular Riesling. Then you have Auslese, which is harvested later than Spatlese and is really sweet. Then you have Kavinett. Unlike Zinfandel, sugar is not added to Riesling, so the sweetness is from the grapes themselves. The later the harvest, the sweeter the wine.

Some of the late harvest rieslings are pretty sweet. Some of them are borderline too sweet, but they are all very, very good.

Answer 6

Whew, you finally got a correct answer there near the end.

Riesling grapes, like any grapes, or any fruit or other sugar-containing substance, can be fermented any way you wish, to dryness or with residual sweetness. The weather may limit the ripeness (ie, sugar content, and thus potential alcohol and residual sugar) depending on year and location and hang time.

After determining how much sugar nature has given the grapes, depending on which quality regulations the winemaker wants to comply with (for labeling considerations), sugar may or may not be added, whether to increase alcohol, sweetness or both.

Try an Alsatian riesling to experience the dry end of the scale.

Wines are fermented into styles, which are the decision of the winemaker, and based generally on consumer demand. A given grape is not automatically a "dry" or "sweet" wine.

Answer 7

Reisling is considered a sweet wine. This means that it is not dry like a fuller bodied red wine. Reisling is very light and is similar to a Gerwertemeiner. It is made in a German style. If you are looking for a very sweet wine, you may want to try an ice wine. The grapes for this wine are left on the vine until after the first frost. This concentrates the flavors and produces less wine per grapes. Ice wine can be found for around $25 and up, where some reislings can be about $7.

Answer 8

Because of both its cellar longevity and its ability to maintain varietal identity while reflecting the individuality of its terroir, Riesling may be the best of all the white wine grapes. Its homeland is Germany, where it has been cultivated since the 1400s or earlier, and where it is made into wines that run the gamut from bone dry and crisp quaffers to the complex, unctuous nectars made from Botrytis-affected, shriveled berries, individually late-picked, and known by the moniker Trockenbeerenauslese.

Riesling has a powerful and distinctive floral and apple-like aroma that frequently mixes in mineral elements from its vineyard source and is often described as "racy." Its high natural level of Tartaric acid enables it to balance even high levels of residual sugar.

Answer 9

The sweetness of a Reisling will vary alot depending on the vineyard they come from. Sweetness also varies with personal taste. Overall Reislings are excellent wines, you should find a wine store or a wine bar that does tastings and sample different labels to find the one you like best.

Another excellent White is a Vigioner.

Answer 10

Muscat wine is the closest thing to Riesling.