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Sugar Levels: Wine
Sugar Levels in the grapes, transformed into alcohol during fermentation.
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Still wines |
Sugar (g/1) |
Sparkling wines |
Sugar (g/1) |
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Extra dry |
>2,5 |
Extra dry / brut |
< 15 |
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Dry |
<4 |
Dry / sec |
15-35 |
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Semi-dry |
4-12 |
Semi-sweet / demi-sec |
35-50 |
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Semi-sweet |
4-30 |
Sweet / doux |
>50 |
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Late Harvest |
20-30 |
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Special Late Harvest (SLH)1 |
<50 |
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Natural Sweet (or Sweet Natural) |
>30 |
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Noble Late Harvest (NLH)2 |
>50 |
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| Naturally dried grape wine (straw wine)3 |
> 30 |
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1.Grapes must be harvested at 22 Balling or more.
2 Grapes must have at least 30g/l sugar-free extract, grapes harvested at 28 Balling or more.
3 Potential alcohol must be at least 16% by volume.
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