Please explain how wine (a liquid) can be dry? I've never had the courage to ask what dry means....
If a wine is low in sugars, it will be 'dry' and you'll know what it means the instant you drink it. It can be almost like chokecherries (does anyone else know what I mean), leaving your mouth, well, dry. The sugar, even at low amounts, while it doesn't necessarily make a wine what anyone would call sweet can help balance that out. Once you get into blush wines and white wines, then they get on the sweet 'juicy' side.