Your wine preferences & any changes over time?

[Norse]

Do like Alsace dry Riesling. It's good that most don't know that really good Riesling is dry. It really goes well with good bratwurst and cabbage.

I'm not a wine snot!!

I love a good, crisp, dry Alsacian Riesling with spicy or German foods - can't stand the sweet whites, but I thought they were just fine when I was much younger. For me, it's all about what food am I having with it, and what is the season? Summer, more dry crisp whites and roses; winter, mostly reds - I especially like the French Rhone-style wines and French, Washington and Oregon burgandies/pinots. Not much of a fan of California reds as they tend to be too heavy in the alcohol department and not as food friendly.

As they say at my local wine shop (grocery stores cannot sell alcohol here): A day without wine? Why bother?

[Crankin]

I love, love, love dry rose wine. I drink it in the summer, but also with some types of Italian food all year round. Good rose is so different from the sweeter stuff and most of all, from that horrible White Zinfendal. I also love rose sparkling wine.

[Norse]

White Zin is not rose. My very recent ex brought a bottle of white zin over on our second date. That should have been clue.