![]() ![]() A restaurant-sized glass of wine (6 oz), for instance, has about 150 calories on average (this wouldn’t be true for a sweet wine, but is true for most dry wines which are most common). However, most dry white wines have very little sugar and very few calories when compared to popular cocktails that use sweet ingredients. While it may be popular to look for ‘low sugar’ or ‘sugar-free’ wine, wine is simply not a naturally sugar free beverage and most of the best wines in the world will never (and should never) be completely free of any naturally occurring sugars. There is always some sugar left in wine after fermentation unless a winemaker purposely ferments a wine to the point where it’s utterly bone dry and has 0 residual sugar left, which changes the taste and feel of a wine, as well as the alcohol level. Residual sugar is the natural grape sugar left over in a wine, after the yeast has done its job during fermentation, eating away at the sugars in the wine, to create alcohol. ![]() Though there are a lot of wines that fall in between, and they are typically referred to as ‘off-dry’ which we’ll explain more about later in this post. But what exactly do these terms mean? What amount of sugar in wine constitutes a ‘dry’ wine and how sweet is 'sweet' wine? Generally, a dry wine is a wine with less than 10 grams of residual sugar per liter and a sweet wine is a wine with more than 30 grams or residual sugar. You may have heard the terms ‘dry’ and ‘sweet’ used to describe white wines. ![]()
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