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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There are exceptions, of course, and two of my favorites are both produced in New York: the Channing Daughters Tocai Friulano, a crisp dry white made from a Friulian grape, and a minerally white Rkatsiteli, a Russian grape grown by Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes district.
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One of my favorites in the "interesting but not intellectually taxing" category is Vouvray, the dry, minerally white from the Loire Valley that's delicious when young but amazing with a few years' age, particularly made by great producers like Domaine Huet and Jacky Blot.
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When a successor is elected, the ballots are burned dry to produce the white smoke that signals the church has a new pope.
The Zinfandel grape is also widely used in the popular off-dry blush wine known as White Zinfandel.
Later, Crean got down on a knee and used a white towel to help dry a wet spot on the floor in front of his team's sideline.
Its belly was white as an egg, soft, dry and shiny like polished leather and undulating with breaths.
Meeker and I head over in the early afternoon and hit the White's winking riffles and the deep green pools with nymphs, streamers and dry flies.
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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One is so old and gaunt that the hair on his body is white, and the sweat on his chest hangs like drops of the first rains on dry blades of grass.
The narrow white-oak slats banding its walls and ceiling promoted mindful serenity while helping to create an admirably dry sound.
His trademark sound and laid-back swing--he said he wanted to sound like a dry martini--hinted at the influence of tenor saxophone master Lester Young , a tendency shared by many white saxophonists of the time.
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