what is a very good dry red wine?

Answer 1

What makes a wine "dry" is the amount of sugar left after fermentation, Residual Sugar. Since there is less sugar, you taste the tartness of a dry wine. The opposite of a dry wine is a sweet wine.

Typical, dry red wines are Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Currently, I like Columbia Crest wines.

You can also have dry white wines, such as, Chardonnay.

With the popularity of wines, your chances of finding a good wine at a decent price $10 to 15 on up is very good. I would look for good wine regions... Domestic: Napa Valley; Central Coast CA - Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara. There are also good wines coming out of WA and OR, but not familar with a lot of them.

If you live near a a winery or a good wine shop, I would highly recommend going wine tasting. It's relatively inexpensive, depending on the place $5 or less... you taste a lot of different types of wines where you can see what you like and dislike.

Answer 2

Good Dry Red Wine

Answer 3

Best Dry Red Wine

Answer 4

Dry Red Wine



The primary difference between red and white winemaking is that the juice (must) is left in contact with the skins for red wine to extract colour and tannin. The amount of colour will depend on the type of grape used - Syrah, for example, gives dense colour - and the length of time that maceration on the skins is permitted.


On arrival at the winery the grapes are usually de-stemmed, although stems are sometimes used, and put through a crusher to break the skins and release the juice. The entire mass is then placed in the fermenting vessel where a 'cap' of the skins forms. This cap has to be kept submerged, normally by 'pumping over', to extract colour and flavour. Temperature, although controlled is kept higher than for white wine, at around 29 degrees C, again to extract colour and skin contact can be anything from a few days up to a month depending on the style of wine required.



The best wines are then made from the 'free-run' juice with the lesser quality coming from the pressed mass - known as press wine. This latter wine is dark and tannic and is used for blending purposes. Red wine can then spend anything from a few weeks to a few years in either stainless steel or oak where it is racked and fined several times prior to bottling. Some top quality red wines can spend several more years in bottle prior to release e.g. Spanish 'Gran Reservas'.



Whether to mature in oak, ferment in oak, use new oak or old oak, American oak or French oak or no oak at all - the debate continues and will always continue. Many winemakers believe the true varietal characteristics of their grapes are masked by oaking while others swear by the enrichment given to their wines through the use of oak - it's all about perception of style. At the end of the day the market will probably dictate.

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what is a very good dry red wine?

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A very delicious, fairly priced and unique red wine I like a lot is 7 Deadly Zins. Its a mixture of 7 rare zinfandels. Its produced by Micheal and David Winery in Lodi CA.

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Santa Rita Cabernet Sauvignon

Answer 8

Kendall Jackson Cabernet Sauvignon. Delicious.

Answer 9

I've always found any brand of Merlot to be a great dry red wine.
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Answer 10

PROTOS, spanish, Ribera del Duero wine...magnificent.

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MORGON, french, Beaujolais, also excellent