![]() ![]() In your internet browser, type in the name of the wine, the year, and “technical sheet” and you should get a PDF document with all of the wine’s details. Here’s a great example of the technical sheet for Jam Jar wine. If you’re 100% determined to know what the residual sugar is in a wine, then look for the wine’s technical sheet.Ī wine’s technical sheet is an informational sheet that includes all of the nerdy wine info for the wine you’re tasting (or thinking of buying). Read the wine’s technical specifications online Look for sweetness indicators on the back of the wine label 5 Good Strategies to Pick Dry White Winesīecause a white wine can be made in a dry or off-dry style regardless of the grape, here are some good strategies to help you pick a dry white wine: ![]() These dry white wines include bottles like Riesling, Chenin Blanc, Torrontes, and Grüner Veltliner. High acid, fruity white wines can come across as sweet because of their fruit intensity. Off-dry wines, however, have a mildly perceptible sweetness, with moderate levels of residual sugar from around 12g/L and up. Sweet wines typically retain high levels of their residual sugar as much as 230g/L in some instances. Certainly in the United States, we like things sweet! Not All Wines that Taste Sweet Have Residual Sugar Dry wines have had all or almost all their sugar converted to alcohol during fermentation. These wines are made to appeal to a wide audience, and, generally speaking, humans love sugar and sweetness. Our palate begins to perceive sweetness at about 2 grams of sugar per glass. Sweet wines can have as many as 20 grams of sugar per glass. Labels like Meomi, Yellow Tail, Kendall Jackson, Franzia - all of these wines were made to have perceptible sweetness above 2 g/l. Dry wines have less than 1 gram per glass (150ml/5 ounces). ![]() Many inexpensive, mass-market table wines that you'll find at the grocery store have significantly more residual sugar than 2 g/l. That’s less than ½ of a teaspoon of sugar in a glass of wine!īelow this level, it’s almost impossible to pick up sugar in your white wine. Long-time wine drinkers or those with great tastebuds can pick up sweetness at 2 grams per liter of residual sugar in a glass of wine. It can be challenging to detect sweetness in wine if you’re a new wine drinker. ![]()
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