Appears in
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

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lieblich, appears (albeit usually in small print) on labels of austrian wines whose residual sugar is between 19 and 45 g/l. The term is not seen on German labels but it often used informally to describe German wines sweeter than those labelled trocken, halbtrocken, or feinherb.