Dry or Sweet

[Innkeeper]

Hi Wine-is-above-me and welcome to the Wine Board. Paisano is sweet, Merlot is dry, Chianti is dry, and it depends on what you mean by Burgundy. Are you talking about red plonk from California (seen less and less thankfully) it is usually somewhat sweet. If you mean French Burgundy made from Pinot Noir grapes, it is usually dry.

Sweet wine usually tastes that way. Dry wine is more of a misnomer. It can be very fruity giving an appearance of sweetness, or it can simply lack sweetness. A wine is dry if all the sugar in it has been fermented into alcohol.