How to tell how much sugar is in these wines?

[Thomas]

The word, brix, is from a person's name--German, I think--it is used for the measure of natural grape sugar percentage by volume in juice. There are instruments that measure brix by way of specific gravity.

The percentage of alcohol, when fermented dry, is close to half the beginning brix; 23% brix about 12% Alcohol.

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 02-12-2003).]