2007-01-03 17:27:45 · 6 answers · asked by barbara c 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
'Dry' just describes the taste of a wine, where 'dry' means the opposite of sweet.
Wine can be made anywhere from sweet to dry, so you can have a scale of descriptions from the sweetest to the least sweet like
Sweet, medium sweet, medium, medium dry, off-dry, dry
2007-01-03 20:43:38 · answer #1 · answered by Pontac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Dry" wine refers to the fact that the wine has no residual sugar. During fermentation, all of the sugar in the grapes was converted to alcohol.
Wines with a trace of or more sweetness had the fermentation prematurely ended by the winemaker, because he or she wanted to make it in that style.
Another technique is to add a bit of sweet wine as a 'dosage' to the blend. That's how many champagnes/sparkling wines are made: au naturel has no residual sugar, while brut has a noticable amount of sweeness.
2007-01-03 17:40:28 · answer #2 · answered by Tom-SJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dry is just the term to describe wine that is not sweet.
2007-01-03 17:37:11 · answer #3 · answered by Guy M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dry means not very sweet it has less sugar in it but there are so many different kinds of wines even if they are dry they may not say it on the label
2007-01-04 00:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nearly all still red wines are dry to varying degrees.Still whites and sparkling vary from dry,med to sweet
2007-01-03 17:39:01 · answer #5 · answered by siaosi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hear dry wine leave an after taste and reg wine doesnt
2007-01-03 17:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by nismogurl95 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋