Acidity, alcohol, and even tannins can influence our perception of sweetness. Here's your guide to understanding how sweetness really works in wine.

Simply stated, sweet wine contains residual sugars and tastes sweet, while dry wines contain little or no residual sugar and ...

Dry: “The majority of wines are dry. This means all the sugar in the grape juice has been converted into alcohol. Just because it smells sweet doesn’t mean it will be!” Off Dry ...

While enjoying a glass of Cabernet a few weeks ago with an old friend who is unfamiliar with wine jargon, I was caught off-guard when he asked, "How in the world can a liquid as delicious as this ...

Extra-Dry: A misleading term, which designates a relatively sweet Champagne or sparkling wine. In Champagne, the scale from driest to sweetest is: Brut Nature, Extra Brut, Brut, Extra-Dry (or ...

Designates a medium-sweet wine, though the term—which translates literally to half-dry—is potentially confusing. Most often used for Champagne or other sparkling wines, the term also appears on ...