medium-dry
Definition
- Adjective:
- Of a wine that is dry but not extremely dry: Describes a wine that has some perceptible sweetness but is not sweet enough to be classified as a sweet wine. It falls between a fully dry wine and a noticeably sweet one.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- This Riesling is medium-dry, with a pleasant hint of sweetness balancing its acidity.
- I prefer a medium-dry white wine with spicy food.
Advanced Usage
- The term is almost exclusively used in the context of wine tasting and classification to describe a specific level of residual sugar.
- It can sometimes be applied by analogy to other beverages, like cider, to indicate a similar level of perceptible but not dominant sweetness.
Variants and Related Words
- Off-dry: A near-synonym often used interchangeably with "medium-dry" to describe wines with a slight sweetness.
- Semi-dry: Another common synonym for medium-dry.
Synonyms
- Off-dry
- Semi-dry
Antonyms
- Dry (having no perceptible sweetness)
- Sweet (having a pronounced sweetness)
Adjective
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of a wine that is dry but not extremely dry
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