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First Decide What Kind of Wine You Want
Once you’ve determined that you are in the mood for white wine (as opposed to red wine, rosé, champagne, or sparkling wine), you then need to decide whether you want your wine sweet or dry. Furthermore, are you looking for a light-bodied or full-bodied wine? If these choices sound like Greek to you, stick with me a little longer.
Sweet or Dry?
We all know what sweet tastes like, but what does it mean for a wine to be dry? In “wine-speak”, dry is not the opposite of wet, but rather the opposite of sweet. A dry wine is one that’s quite simply…not sweet.
There is no way to definitively tell whether a wine will be sweet or dry before tasting it.
Still, you can take a hint from the type of grapes used to make the wine. Take, for instance, the list below of common types of white wine ordered according to increased dryness. From the list, we can see that a Riesling will generally be a sweet wine while a Brut will probably be very dry.
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