medium-dry

Thân thiện

The sommelier recommends a medium-dry white wine with the fish.

Definition

1. 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)

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of a wine that is dry but not extremely dry