AdvertisementTips & adviceThe Full Bottle Why do our local rieslings taste dry and sour when compared to German wines? At this level, you don’t normally taste sweetness. Photo: Simon LetchAdvertisementHowever, most wine drinkers don’t like tart or acidic white wines (sour, to use your word), just as they don’t like a lot of tannin in red wines. In other words, they’ve heard that it’s more fashionable to drink dry wines, but most actually prefer some sweetness. What tastes sweet to an experienced taster might taste dry to an amateur.