I recently went to a Wine101 class and he approached it by
helping us to just describe what we are smelling and tasting.
With 9 simple wine terms, we are able to communicate what we are
looking for in a wine. Sweet, Dry, and Fruity Sweet and Dry are
opposites and only refer to sugar content in the wine. A sweet
wine usually has alcohol percentage under 10%, while a wine with
an alcohol percentage over 13% will have little to no sugar
content left leaving it dry. Fruity is simply referring to an
aroma. And since wine comes from a grape, it should always lead
with a fruit based aroma. Fruity tends to be more dominant in
new world wines (USA, Australia, South America etc). Acidic,
Soft, and Tannic An acidic wine is all about salivating. How
much salivation will tell exactly how much and what type of
acids are in the wine. A wine with a lack of acidity is called a
soft wine. A merlot is usually considered a soft wine. A wine
with tannin leaves a astringent feeling in the mouth. Tannins
can be caused by the follow