Lambrusco, the wine your parents sneered at, is now hot

Mar 27, 2015 837

by Bill St. John

The nicest thing about recommending wine to Gen Xers and Gen Yers is that they don't have ear lids. Tell them that riesling is the world's greatest white wine grape and they say, "OK, cool; so show me." You hand them a glass of well-made Mosel; they go "Wow."

That doesn't happen with baby boomers or those called "the silent generation," people 50 years old and up. By and large, these folk are convinced that all riesling is mawkishly sweet and so they avoid it. I never see so much face scrunching on a boomer than when I say "riesling."

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