Dry vs sweet wines

I was doing a web search when I stumbled across a web site that explains the difference between dry and sweet wines: http://www.bartending-freestyle-learnin ... wines.html. The page is headed "Be a Professional...Be a Bartender".

I thought the following passage explained it really well. Perhaps you should pass it on to your less knowledgeable friends.

Sweet wines are most commonly known as dessert wines. Evidently, a sweet wine is sugar-rich and thus contains twenty to twenty five percent residual sugars. On the other hand, dry wines only have 1% or less residual sugars in it that it is almost negligible to the taste buds. Sweet red wines include Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, Cabernet, and Syrah. In addition, sweet white wines are termed Riesling, Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc. A dry red wine is a Merlot while a dry white wine is a Brut.

I'm glad I had it explained by a professional. I really understand it now. I think I'll serve one of those Pinot Noirs with dessert tonight.

Me loves dem 25% RS Syrahs! Me does!

Through a method called chaptalization, the wines are sweetened up by putting in more sugar to the juice that will counterbalance its acidity.

That article is the absolute acme of scientific thought.

"Sweet red wines include Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, Cabernet, and Syrah. In addition, sweet white wines are termed Riesling, Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc. A dry red wine is a Merlot while a dry white wine is a Brut." And here I though Merlot was a grage! I wonder what my son the bartenter will think of this?

Bang, right on. Wish it relayed who the author was.
Tom

As far as I can make out, the article was lifted from articlesbase:
http://www.articlesbase.com/food-and-be ... 49465.html

The author is Derek Rogers, who seems to be an expert on practically every subject you could dream of:
http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/derek-rogers/10689

The whole point seems to be able to generate search engine fodder for your advertisements.

unbelievable. i don't know whether to laugh or cry. the level of incompetance is beyond anything i can imagine.

There's something called "innumeracy". Do you suppose there's also something called "Invineracy"?

John <dedicated to inventing neologisms>