SC - 16th Century recipes a few questions.

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/31/00 9:09:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:

<< Kabinet is not a dessert wine IMHO.  It is light but
 semidry.  You may be thinking of an auslese, which is
 definitely sweet.
 
 Huette >>

This is correct. Kabinet type wines vary considerably from dry to semidry but 
cannot be defined accurately as 'sweet' as sweet. Auslese is considerably 
sweeter. And, as you pinned out, the berentrachens are sweeter still. 
Unfortunately, Americans have for the most part been 'educated' into thinking 
bitter and dry are the ideals in wine flavors so most of the excellent sweet 
wines are hard to find in the US unless you live in a wine making region.

Ras