Oenophiles (wine lovers) know soave as a dry white wine from the Verona area of Italy. With "dry" and "sweet" being opposites in the wine world, how did "soave," Italian for "sweet," become the name for a dry wine? Blame English for its multiple meanings of "sweet." "Soave" means "sweet" as in "gentle" or "delicate"; the Italian word for "sweet as in sugar" is "dolce."

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