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Sweetness is a taste most people crave but one largely frowned upon in wine. Sweetness is complicated and can be deceitful. Many...
In praise of sweetness, and Orvieto
Wednesday 5 February 2020
There's nothing whatever wrong with a tiny bit of well-balanced residual sugar, especially when it's historic. We were going to publish this account of Barberani, Luigi e Giovanna 2016 Orvieto Classico Superiore as a wine of the week but alas it does not seem to be sufficiently widely available. No point in wasting Walter's heartfelt plea though....
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