Sweetness of Wine - Terms Used To Indicate Sweetness of Wine

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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