【英语生活】最好喝的甜味葡萄酒

I have a sweet tooth and I'm new to wines. I have tasted dry wines and I am totally not feeling them. I know I would enjoy something sweet. Many people suggest dessert wines, but those are tooo sweet. Are there any other sweet wines that I could try beside dessert wines?

--Rose N. Kinyua, Dallas

Instead of sweet, think fruity. In reds, try Beaujolais. It's not sweet, but it's so fruity that people who have a sweet tooth often like it. Get the 2007 Beaujolais-Villages (until the 2008 is available) and see what you think. Also, try a German Riesling-any German Riesling called 'Riesling Kabinett' might do it for you. And while you won't see Gew rztraminer everywhere (it's a peppery white that is often a bit sweet and always delightful), keep your eyes peeled for that. You might also want to do yourself a favor and try an inexpensive bottle of bubbly like soft Prosecco from Italy, which is pleasant and oh so easy to drink. Or grab a floral and fruity Torront s, the popular white wine of Argentina. It often has hints of honey, apples, peaches and pears. More generally, we can't stress enough the benefits of finding a merchant whom you trust to identify just what kinds of wines you like.

The Magic of Chablis

We are going away soon on our annual four-week hiatus-no, it's not a vacation because we'll spend the whole month hectoring the girls about preparing for their return to college-but before we went we wanted to leave you with this one word: Chablis. Truly, if you have not yet enjoyed a bottle of Chablis with seafood this summer, what are you waiting for?

Chablis-the real thing, from France-is made from the Chardonnay grape in a smallish area in northern Burgundy. The geography is important because the grapes that grow out of that mineral-rich soil are left with abundant acidity and a focused purity. We love it with seafood. So the other night, when Dottie made lightly fried oysters and shrimp for dinner, John decided to visit a little suburban wine store, looking for a bottle of wine for dinner.

His first choice was Chablis and the name he planned to look for was William Fevre. While Fevre may not be the best winemaker in all of Chablis or even our very favorite in all of our tastings, what we know about Fevre wines is that they are relatively widely available, consistently good and well-priced. Plus, they always do well in our tastings. While there are various levels of Chablis, including Grand Cru, John was more interested in basic Chablis, which is a better buy. We have not found the usually much-higher prices for the fancier bottlings to be great values. Finally, John didn't consult a vintage chart before he looked and didn't really care. Young Chablis is delightful; older Chablis has a special depth, and because this store takes good care of its inventory, older would be fine.

The store is small, but the selection is well-chosen and broad-it seems to have one or two of just about everything. And, sure enough, there was William Fevre 'Champs Royaux' 2007, for $27. He picked it up. We chilled it and served it with dinner. The wine itself was beautiful-ripe and intense, with good minerals and a lime kick at the end with a kind of vague little cloud of burnt sugar that reminded us of cr me brûl e. It was dry, with a beautiful fruit-oak balance that made it wonderfully complete. We enjoy all kinds of pairings and we experiment with them all the time, but few pairings in the world are as utterly seamless as a good Chablis and good seafood. When paired with plump, creamy oysters in a slightly salty crunchy coating and dense, salty and sweet shrimp, the flinty acidity of the Chablis was little short of magical.

读者问：我爱吃甜食，而在葡萄酒方面我是个新手。我品尝过干葡萄酒，而对这些酒我完全没有感觉。我知道我会更喜欢甜酒。许多人建议我尝一下餐后甜酒，但这些酒又实在太甜了。除了餐后甜酒之外，是否还有其它的甜葡萄酒？--达拉斯读者Rose N. Kinyua

相关报导他的第一选择就是塞布利酒，他打算买的酒叫威廉热夜（William Fevre）。虽然在所有塞布利酒中，热夜可能不是最好的酒庄，甚至不是我们所品过的酒中最喜欢的一款，我们知道热夜酒相对来说在市场上容易买到，且质量稳定，价格合理。此外，在我们的品酒会上它们总是表现良好。虽然塞布利酒分各种级别，其中包括特级酒，但约翰对低档次的塞布利酒更感兴趣，因为它们更划算。那些通常标价远高于低档酒且包装精美的酒，我们还没有发现它们有真正划算的性价比。最后一点，约翰去买酒前并没有查过葡萄酒年份表，他并不很在乎这点。塞布利新酒的味道令人愉快；而老塞布利具有特殊的深度，因为这家商店对库存的酒保管得很好，因此陈年酒也无所谓。

这家商店虽小，但店内的酒却是包罗万象并经过精心挑选的，所有种类的酒好像都能在店里找出一二瓶来。果然，约翰找到了威廉热夜的2007年“Champs Royaux”，售价27美元。他挑了出来。我们把酒冰镇后佐以晚餐。酒本身口感很好，醇厚且浓烈，富含矿物质，微带一点焦糖口感，让我们想起cr口酒。喝到瓶底的时候还有一种酸柠檬味的刺激感。这种干葡萄酒的水果味和橡木味的平衡度达到了极其美妙的境界，使其口味臻于完美。我们向来喜欢把酒和各种食物搭配，并在不断地试验各种搭配中自得其乐，但世上很少的搭配会如塞布利酒佐以上好的海鲜那样天衣无缝。当配上裹在微咸松脆的外皮里的肥美多汁的牡蛎，还有那肉质紧密而咸中带甜的海虾的时候，塞布利酒中那毫不含糊的酸度几乎会把你带入神奇的境界。