Acidity, alcohol, and even tannins can influence our perception of sweetness. Here's your guide to understanding how sweetness really works in wine.

Meanwhile, the best sweet red wine, like lambrusco, pairs beautifully with Gouda cheese on a charcuterie board. Dry red wine, like a medium-bodied chianti, is versatile and a friendly pairing with ...

We know a wine is dry when we taste it, but actually determining what makes it dry can be a tricky question to untangle and comes down to a variety of factors.

In non-dry wines, the producer stops the fermentation process just shy of the yeast being able to consume all of the sugar in the base liquid, so the final product still has some sweetness to it.

Oyster Ridge is a dry red full-bodied blend. It opens with a captivating nose of black plum, boysenberry, saddle leather, Dutch cocoa powder, and toasted oak. The palate has layered flavors of black ...

Discover the luxurious full-bodied red Italian wine, Amarone Della Valpolicella, from the Veneto region of Italy. Learn about its production and pairing.

While enjoying a glass of Cabernet a few weeks ago with an old friend who is unfamiliar with wine jargon, I was caught off-guard when he asked, "How in the world can a liquid as delicious as this ...