+- 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.