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Elements of wine: Sweetness/dryness
Wine has five components that determine taste and quality: alcohol, acid, tannin, sweetness/dryness, fruitiness. This is the fourth part of a five-part podcast/post series, and the subject is sweetness/dryness.
Sweetness/dryness links to the essence of wine: conversion of grape juice sugar into alcohol.
If all or most of the sugar in the grape juice converts to alcohol, the wine is dry. If not all or most of the sugar is not converted to alcohol, or sugar is added after fermentation, the wine has “residual sugar” and is sweet to varying degrees.
Seems simple. It is not. This is wine, after all.
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