Definitions
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- adjective somewhat dry
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Examples
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The winery reserved the two semi-dry rieslings for the end of the tasting believing that they would have a different overall profile.
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The 2007 semi-dry riesling was a knockout, with powerful lemon and citrus flavors backed by a touch of sweetness and hint of acidity and minerality.
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This wine was in tremendous balance and demonstrated to me, again, that on the whole I prefer 2007 semi-dry reislings to their dry counterparts from the same vintage.
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Sheldrake's vertical featured semi-dry riesling, not dry riesling.
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Historically, labels with semi-dry, off-dry, or even dry have always been completely subjective, and often confusing to the consumer.
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My senior year I took the "Introduction to Wines" class and remember being blown away by the Hermann J. Weimer semi-dry Riesling.
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When I produced the first vintage at Red Newt in 1998, one of the six (6) wines that made up the portfolio was a semi-dry blend of Vidal and Cayuga named “Red Newt White”.
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The first bottle was either a semi-dry or dry riesling from Hermann J. Wiemer.
Q&A 2009
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I just tend to prefer the flavors of the dry vs. semi-dry.
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She found all the Rieslings she sampled -- those labelled dry, semi-dry, and semi-sweet -- to be "dry" in her lexicon.
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