Indication of sweetness in wine

The levels of sugar and acidity have an impact on the wine's sweetness indication.

Indication	Sugar content g/l
Brut Nature / Extra brut / Brut (Erittäin kuiva)	0 –12
Extra Sec / Extra Dry / Extra trocken / Extra seco (Kuiva)	12–17
Sec / Dry / Trocken / Secco (Puolikuiva)	17–32
Demi-sec / Halbtrocken / Medium Dry (Puolimakea)	32–50
Sweet / Doux / Dolce, (Makea)	over 50

Sweetness indications of sparkling wines

Five different sweetness indication categories are used for customer communications in Alko: Very dry, dry, medium dry, medium sweet and sweet.

Dry	Wines containing maximum 4 g/l of sugar or maximum 9 g/l of sugar, if the acid content of the wine calculated as tartaric acid is maximum 2 g/l lower than the content of remaining sugar.
Medium dry	Wines that do not correspond to the definition of dry wine but contain no more sugar than 12 g/l, or if the amount of remaining sugar is maximum 18 g/l while the acid content of the wine (in tartaric acid) is maximum 10 g/l lower than the content of remaining sugar.
Medium sweet	Wines containing more sugar than the earlier mentioned wines, yet no more than 45 g/l.
Sweet	Wines containing more than 45 g/l of sugar/l.

– Wine containing 7 g/l of sugar and 6 g/l of acid	dry
– Wine containing 7 g/l of sugar and 4 g/l of acid	medium dry
– Wine containing 17 g/l of sugar and 8 g/l of acid 8 g/l	medium dry
– Wine containing 17 g/l of sugar and 6 g/l of acid	medium sweet
– Wine containing 20 g/l of sugar	medium sweet
– Wine containing 50 g/l of sugar	sweet

Sweetness indications of wines

Wines are divided into four different categories based on the sweetness: dry, medium dry, medium sweet and sweet.

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