Terms Used To Indicate Sweetness of Wine
According to EU regulation 753/2002, the following terms may be used on the labels of table wines and quality wines:
| Dry | Medium Dry | Medium | Sweet: | |
| Sweetness | up to 4 g/l | up to 12 g/l | up to 45 g/l | more than 45 g/l |
| If balanced with suitable acidity | up to 9 g/l | up to 18 g/l | ||
| suitable acidity as g/l tartaric | less than 2 g/l below sugar | less than 10 g/l below sugar | ||
| Afrikaans | droog | semi-droog | semi-soet | soet |
| Bosnian/Croatian | suho | polusuho | poluslatko | slatko |
| Bulgarian | сухо | полусухо | полусладко | сладко |
| Czech | suché | polosuché | polosladké | sladké |
| Chinese | 干葡萄酒 | 半干葡萄酒 | 半甜葡萄酒 | 甜葡萄酒 |
| Danish | tør | halvtør | halvsød | sød |
| Dutch | droog | halfdroog | halfzoet | zoet |
| English | dry | medium dry | medium, medium sweet | sweet |
| Estonian | kuiv | poolkuiv | poolmagus | magus |
| Finnish | kuiva | puolikuiva | puolimakea | makea |
| French | sec | demisec | moelleux | doux |
| German | trocken | halbtrocken | lieblich | süß |
| Greek | ξηρός | ημίξηρος | ημίγλυκος | γλυκός |
| Hungarian | száraz | félszáraz | félédes | édes |
| Italian | secco, asciutto | abboccato | amabile | dolce |
| Latvian | sausais | pussausais | pussaldais | saldais |
| Lithuanian | sausas | pusiau sausas | pusiau saldus | saldus |
| Persian | talkh (تلخ) | gass (گس) | shirin(شیرین) | |
| Polish | wytrawne | półwytrawne | półsłodkie | słodkie |
| Portuguese | seco | meio seco, adamado | meio doce | doce |
| Romanian | sec | demisec | demidulce | dulce |
| Russian | сухое | полусухое | полусладкое | сладкое |
| Serbian | suvo | polusuvo | poluslatko | slatko |
| Slovak | suché | polosuché | polosladké | sladké |
| Slovenian | suho | polsuho | polsladko | sladko |
| Spanish | seco | semiseco | semidulce | dulce |
| Swedish | torrt | halvtorrt | halvsött | sött |
| Turkish | sek | dömisek | yarıtatlı | tatlı |
| Ukrainian | сухе | напівсухе | напівсолодке | солодке |
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