Which Is The Best White Wine In the World?

"Raymond" wrote in news:ctl97h$78r$1 @mawar.singnet.com.sg:

Let me be the first to ask, best for what, best according to whom. If I say it is such and such a Montrachet from such and such a year, someone else will say something else. It is a matter of taste you know. And what is best isn't always affordable, for my money "best" is often a Premier Cru Chablis, though I have a bottle of white Chateauneuf du Pape that would like to prove me wrong.

jcoulter wrote in news:Xns95EF566B6153225stellar@216.196.97.136:

OOPs, and then who says the best is dry? Look you to Sauternes or to Hungary for Tokaii (sp?)

the most desirable is the one you can't afford and the best is the one you want and have in your glass.

Salut/Hi Raymond,

le/on Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:13:05 +0800, tu disais/you said:-

There isn't ONE best white wine in the world. That said, a wine would have to be pretty good to match a Montrachet from Comte Lafon in a great year, or to match a top German TBA from the Moselle.

Best is a value judgment in the eyes of the beholder. You could talk about which wine the largest number of people consider best on a survey, but results could vary depending on how people were selected for the survey. You could talk about which wine is the most expensive. For dry white wines soon after the vintage, the DRC Montrachet and some of the white Burgundy wines from Leroy are likely to be the most expensive and at the top of many lists. However very old sweet wines that can age well can be much more expensive and are at the top of many lists. These could include Tokaji Eszencia that can last hundreds of years, top TBAs from Germany, Yquem from the 1800s, classic Constantia, top vintage Madeira that can last well over 100 years, etc. Also, even some very rare sweet wines can be extremely expensive when first released. I believe that the

1983 Scharzhofberger Eiswein from Egon Mueller sold for over $700 per bottle when a little of it first became available in the US.

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A meaningless question. We all have different tastes, and no one person's taste is better than anyone else's. Not even the world's greatest wine experts would agree on something like this.

Moreover, over and above the differences in individual tastes, I don't even think the word "best" is meaningful for a question like this. Even if I'm only talking about *my* taste, the best white wine for the fish I'm having for dinner tonight is not the best white I'd like to have for tomorrow's dinner.

And by the way it is not a forgone conclusion that the best is dry, nor is it a foregone conclusion that the best is French.

Ha!, it's not from F____ at all.

Valentini Trebbiano d'Abruuzzo.

The "best" white will vary according to your taste and what (if anything) you are sipping it with. If you want to match a white with food, a dry Riesling is probably the safest match for the largest number of foods. But even Riesling won't work with everything. I have no experience with French whites; I can't directly answer your last question.

Dan-O

The best white wine in the world is the one on your table. :)

My personal fav is Costalupo Illuminati. I am a cheap date. :)

MW

I can't get to this one just yet. I'm still trying to decide whether "dry is good and sweet is yucky" or "sweet is good and dry is yucky".

Montes Alpha Chardonnay, Chile

Tokayi 5 Puttonyos, Roayla Tokayi (there may well be better but I probably couldn't afford)

My first choice would be Domaine de Baumard Quarts de Chaume (pref '95 and '96), pure magic!