Dry wine

[Rookie]

A friend of mine was in europe last year and they had alot of dry wine. My question is what is dry wine ?

[Bucko]

No residual sugar, or R.S. below human taste threshold.

Bucko

[Thomas]

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.