![]() ![]() Sweet wines range from Medium Sweet, the lower end of the residual sugars, to Very Sweet, where we’re approaching that twenty percent. Let’s get into the stuff you can actually use when you’re shopping the labels. Sweet wines can reach a super sweet twenty percent of leftover residual sugars in the bottle!īut that’s all just some wine knowledge for you to throw down at your next Girls’ Night. So in short, sweet wines are wines that were halted earlier in the fermentation process than dry wines. ![]() The longer a wine ferments, the fewer residual sugars are left behind. The natural sugars in grapes are converted into alcohol during the fermentation process. It’s always a lot less intimidating to just ask someone who knows wine to bring you what you’re asking for, but I, as your Fairy Wine Mother, am here to give you some confidence so you can start venturing out on your own.Īll wines contain sugar – “residual sugars” as a matter of fact. Believe it or not, that’s a great place to start. ![]() So you’ve narrowed your wine preferences down to red. If you think sweet wines are what you’ve been missing all your life, or you’re sympathetic to our cause, join me! Let’s bust these sweet red wine myths and sip onward! Decoding The Sweet Reds We are here to dash those myths to dust! Wine is for everyone, sweet wines are valid, and I am leading this revolution! Sweet wines sometimes get a bad wrap because some believe they taste cheaper or aren’t made well. You might just be calibrated to prefer sweeter wines! If you’ve found that the classic wines everyone always suggests just leaves a (literally) bitter taste in your mouth, fear not! Just because you don’t enjoy the dry stuff doesn’t mean you don’t have a refined palette. As you start to venture outside the world of the almost universally affordable, judgment-free land of boxed wines and two-buck chucks, you might find yourself worrying that wine just isn’t FOR you. ![]()
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