2006-09-02 16:23:14 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
it gives you a dry taste in your mouth, no other way to explain.
2006-09-04 16:12:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dry wine is wine that has been fermented until all the natural sugar that was present in the grapes has been consumed. It therefore has the maximum amount of alcohol possible for the type of grapes used in making the wine. Recipes call for dry wines to avoid the sweetness a sweet or semisweet wine would add to the dish.
2006-09-02 23:27:51 · answer #2 · answered by missourim43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dry is to describe wine that has little to no sweetness. Sweeter wines will be called 'sweet'. I think the back of my wine bottle has a chart that says very sweet, sweet, semi-dry, and dry to indicate the sweetness.
2006-09-02 23:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dry is the opposite of sweet in this case.
2006-09-03 10:29:17 · answer #4 · answered by howlettlogan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it wasn't that the question is another example of the idiosyncrasy of the English language, I would suggest you have had too many of your namesake. By the way, you might also have suggested dry beer just to throw people off.
2006-09-02 23:34:06 · answer #5 · answered by St N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Dry" refers to the flavour of the liquid. Dry wine, for instance, is not sweet to the palette.
2006-09-02 23:45:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't mean lack of moisture. It is a description of the flavor of the wine that I don't really understand because I don't really like wine.
2006-09-02 23:29:31 · answer #7 · answered by Gwen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name has to do with how sweet a taste it has.
2006-09-02 23:25:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it tastes as though it dries the tounge..not literally dry...
2006-09-02 23:27:13 · answer #9 · answered by KT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a figure of speech Einstein.
2006-09-02 23:27:01 · answer #10 · answered by Delete System32 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋