your favorite wines?

[Innkeeper]

The wines referred to that don't have "dry" on the label will be perceptibly sweet as advertised. Grant it could be anywhere from slightly sweet to very sweet. Further education is necessary to sort that out.

You are correct in ascerting that not all dry is bone dry. Some so called dry wines, are not dry at all. Since this is illegal, one could get in trouble here naming names.

Just to throw another iron into the fire, it is possible for a dry wine, even a bone dry one, to taste sweet. This is because overtly fruity flavors can taste sweet, even without any actual sweetness being present.