Dry wine - Printable Version +- WineBoard (https://www.wines.com/wineboard) +-- Forum: GENERAL (https://www.wines.com/wineboard/forum-100.html) +--- Forum: For the Novice (https://www.wines.com/wineboard/forum-2.html) +--- Thread: Dry wine (/thread-19532.html) |
- Rookie - 03-11-2000 A friend of mine was in europe last year and they had alot of dry wine. My question is what is dry wine ? - Bucko - 03-11-2000 No residual sugar, or R.S. below human taste threshold. Bucko - Thomas - 03-11-2000 Rookie, wine is made by fermetning the natural grape sugars with yeast. The yeast eats the sugar and one of the results of that meal is alcohol. A dry wine is usually one where most, if not all, of the sugar has been converted. There is, however, another factor in wine that gives the perception of dry-ness; it is the relationship between sugar and natural grape acids; if the latter is high, the sugar perception is low. Hence, a wine with some residual sugar can also be considered dry, provided the acidity is quite high. |