When was the last time you drank a Sauternes? If you're American, your answer is probably "Not recently" or "Been quite a while" or "Was there a first time?" And that's a pity, because the golden, sweet wine is, as Bloomberg's Elin McCoy
explains, "simply fantastic, and given the amount of work that goes into producing each bottle, a bargain."
We happily knock back a cocktail as sweet as a Sweetheart. Why spurn the infinitely subtler Sauternes? McCoy gave me three reasons:
