You can serve them with a lightly dressed mache salad and a chilled bottle of crisp, dry white wine such as a French Chablis or a California Chardonnay.

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Of course, producers could switch to making dry white wine or even red, but by an accident of geography and climate, Sauternes is one of the few areas in which conditions are more or less perfect for the production of that distinctive rich, nutty sweetness.

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The Zinfandel grape is also widely used in the popular off-dry blush wine known as White Zinfandel.

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Curiously though, the white wine he brought for our meal is very ripe and voluptuous, by no means dry, a 2006 Hirtzberger Riesling Smaragd Singerriedel.

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