Sweetness and Acidity
How to taste sweetness and acidity, why they mask each other, and how their balance forms a wine's first structure. Also why the cool Willamette Valley climate keeps grapes' acid, and where the 2026 harvest stood in mid-October.
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Sugar, sour, and how they hide each other
Residual sugar is the grape sugar yeast leaves behind in the finished wine. It is measured in grams per liter, and most tasters miss it below about two to four (how residual sugar works). The four-step sweetness scale…
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