Important question for wine enthusiasts:

The next time I go to a nice restaurant, I want to order a very sweet, chilled wine, whether it be white or red. I want a wine that most resembles ice-cold soda-pop.

Last time I went to an Italian restaurant for my birthday, I made the mistake of ordering a dry, room-temperature Pinot Noir that wound up tasting like crap-crappity-ap-ap-ap. Then I tried a little of the wine my mother ordered, and it tasted a lot better. It was a chilled Zinfandel. I guess I suck at choosing wine. I just want one that tastes similar to cole Welch's grape soda. There's GOT to be a wine like that, right???

the traditional passover wine, despite being almost universally reviled as "sickeningly sweet".

but if welch's grape juice taste is what you want, manechevitz it is!

Can it be served at 50 degrees or lower???

yes, it's best served chilled. you're looking for wines from concord grape or other high "foxiness" wines.

a few results from googling "manischewitz wine temperature":

The Vitis Labrusca remains popular amongst New York State wine producers, mainly because they are such hardy grapes and can withstand the cold winters. The most common Vitis Labrusca grapes include Concord, Catawba and Delaware. Many of these varieties have high acidity, often masked by considerable sweetness. The resulting wines display a characteristic “foxiness” and are sometimes describes as “Welch’s” and “Manischewitz”.



Commercially, Concord is best known as a very sweet table wine and a fortified dessert wine. The best known kosher Concord wines are Manischewitz Medium Dry Concord or Cream White Concord, and wines by Kedem and Mogen David. It is also sold as a semi-sweet or sweet wine served at refrigerator temperature or over ice. A bubbly beverage spritzer can be made by adding
club soda to Concord wine.

merlot. :)

But, based on what you said, might I suggest a Reisling? That's pretty sweet, light, white and served cold (at least that's how I've had it) Reisling is sweeter than Zinandel, in my opinion.

If your going on the cheap, turning leaf's reisling is something I bet you would like, and a bottle of that is not expensive.

No wine is really going to tast like soda - no carbonation.

... includes dessert wines. They are usually sweeter and lower in alcohol content. Good restaurants will have a few on hand. Plum, strawberry and apricot wines are very easy on delicate palates.

Cheers.

Try a Mogan David Concord Grape Slushy,it tastes like grape juice with a strong solvent after taste.Good wine in a resteraunt cost about 4 times what you could buy it for.

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German-style dessert wine, very expensive

Tokaj or tokay - Hungarian wine, runs from dry to semi-dry to sweet.

If you're not that adventureous, try regular White Zin, or Blue Nun (Leibfraumilch)

it will knock a newbie on their ass!

or Ripple. Why drink wine when you don't like it?

Regular Zinfandel is a red wine and should be served at cellar temperature. In fact, most red wines (except for Beaujolais Nouveau) ought to be served at cellar temperature and not chilled.

You might like a dessert wine. Something like a Sauternes, Beerenauslese, or Trockenbeerenauslese.

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I also prefer a sweet to semi sweet wine. Ohio makes some very
fine wines. You can order these if you want to try.
I suggest the River Rouge one of my favorite red wines.
For a white wine I love the River Blanc. Hope this list will
help you in selecting wine next time.

Welch's are made from Concord grapes. Good luck finding that.

the Beaujes (red) will be in around Thanksgiving day. Good rieslings (white) can be had year round.

In the meantime, you should try to find a nice BIG red cabernét. It's expensive as all hell, but Mayacamas cabernéts will make you understand what real wine is all about.

Try a prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine. It's processed naturally so doesn't give a headache like champagne. Extremely popular in Italy and getting well known here. It's one of my personal favorites. I own a wine distributorship so I've had the opportunity to taste alot.

Salute, Dian

Sa-weeet! And kinda pricey. But great dessert wine.

Is a nice white Italian dessert wine.

It's so good, & I'm not a drinker. It tastes like white grape juice. Man o manochevitz is a little too sweet for me, however we do break a bottle out every Christmas, toast to Sophie Hoosenstein and get pie eyed.

there's a good wine from a winery near here called Niagara that tastes like Welch's Grape Juice...at least to me, but it is popular and inexpensive!...I've gone on the vineyard tour the day after Thanksgiving with my friends (some I only see on that weekend) for over a decade now....I'm looking forward to doing it this year but thgat's all I can tell you at this time...

ps Niagara is the name of the grapes so if you see that name you might want to check it out!

I'd be willing to send you a bottle if you would have replied!

eom

than those that taste like fruit juice.

Seriously. Start with the fruity, light wines that are chilled--for instance start with the blush zinfandels, then to a Pinot Gris (a white), then to on slightly chilled Shiraz (a red), then eventually you will enjoy a good, red full-bodied pinot noir.

If you start with a room temp Pinot Noir right away, it will be offensive to your untrained palette.