Sweet vs. Fruity

[Innkeeper]

The PG is fruity, and the WZ is both. Sometimes upfront fruit (that which you taste with your tongue tip and lips) gives an "illusion of sweetness." There are some wine writers who use the term sweet to describe the tastes of all sorts of fruity wines that are actually bone dry. Wines that really are sweet have what is called residual sugar (R.S.). This is suger in the grapes that did not get converted into alcohol. There are all sorts of wines around the world that contain R.S. In commonly found American Wines in addition to white zinfandel, riesling, chenin blanc, and gewutztraminer all can be dry to very sweet (heavy R.S.).



[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 03-20-2001).]