Wine education

So to learn about wine, you're supposed to drink different wines. I tried my SIL's Barefoot Riesling over the holidays and thought it was alright, so I tried it again. It was alright. But then I also saw the Barefoot Moscato, which has "deliciously sweet" on the label, which certainly sounds appealing, so I got that one too.

The Moscato is definitely sweeter than the Riesling (which I thought was typically a sweet wine to begin with). The Riesling has a dry edge that goes really well with Brie--the Moscato is definitely a dessert wine, my Brie tonight was wasted--but whereas the Riesling is 11.5% alcohol by volume, the Moscato is only 9.0%. Which is just as well, because while the Riesling was a screw-top, the Moscato had a cork that I can't put back in.