Lardy's Wine Tasting Notes
Dry Fruit Wines
Lardy's Wine Tasting NotesDry Fruit Wines
A completely dry fruit wine is too tart in most cases, but a fruit wine that balances acid, tannin, flavour and sugar to taste dry is considered dry. Most have a little residual sugar.
Think of lemonade - as long as the acid (lemon) and sugar are in balance the drink is refreshing, tasting neither sweet nor tart. A dry fruit wine follows this pattern - the sugar is also a bit like adding milk to strong tea (neutralizes and softens the tannins).
Dry fruit wines are perfectly useful with foods, but suffer from a lack of public awareness. Most people simply think that fruit wines should approximate a vodka-based cooler (and be very cheap). There are a number of small fruit wineries across Canada dedicated to overcoming this ridiculous attitude.
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