I've tried some truly excellent German dry Rieslings.
The trouble is that some years back, many markets (including the UK) were flooded with sickly sweet terrible examples and the taint has lasted for at least two decades so far.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
