Tastes vary considerably, of course. Among other things, if one engages in tasting better wine, one's palette becomes more educated and that which used to be fine, no longer is. I.e., the best way to stay safely in the low price range is never to taste anything better!
But, it certainly isn't the case that only more experienced and educator tasters like the "good stuff". A number of times I have encountered someone who was mostly a beer drinker, might drink a little white for some occasions, but just never liked reds and/or the reds didn't seem to like them. When given the chance to feed these people some better reds, they seem to have an entirely different experience and the next thing you know, they are fans of red wine ... but, only good red wine. This doesn't mean every kind or every bottle by any means, just that they find what I am feeding them to be very preferable. And, some of that would even fit on this forum ... although often because I am getting it on futures discount or some such.
As for the Auslese, to me that is something to take in limited doses, although it can certainly be delightful in the right context. Some summers I have gotten very fond of Spatlese, which has just enough residual sugar to really emphasize the Riesling fruit without being cloying, particularly since it is balanced by the characteristic Riesling high acidity. |
