medium dry
Between sweet, brut
Medium dry describes wines or other beverages that fall between dry and sweet—containing some residual sugar but not enough to taste distinctly sweet.
A medium dry sherry or Riesling has subtle sweetness balanced by acidity: I'll have the medium dry white.
The term helps navigate wine lists when you want something neither austere nor cloying.
- sparkling wineCarbonated fermented grape beverage
- white winePale fermented grape beverage
- balancedIn a state of equilibrium
- temperateMild, avoiding extremes
- wine listRestaurant's beverage selection guide
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- wine sweetnesssweet, semi-sweet, sugar content, brut, demi-sec
sweetness level in wine/beverages
medium drysweet
Tasting of sugar
dessert wine · luscious · cloying · sugary · semi-sweet
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