On Thu, 4 May 2017 16:15:15 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 5:55:46 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 May 2017 18:03:38 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On 2017-05-04 5:46 PM, Bruce wrote:

>> >> Would you call a sauvignon blanc and a chardonnay as dry wines? Or:
>> >> are all wines dry, except sweet desert wines?
>> >>
>> >No, not really and no.
>>
>> I didn't think so either. Makes me wonder which grapes make dry wine.
>
>Any wine you allow the yeast to eat all the sugars in! They add sugar back to sweet wines.

So if you make white wine from the Chardonnay grape and you let it eat
all the sugars, you get a dry wine made from the Chardonnay grape?

Chenin Blanc is called Droë Steen (Dry Stone) in South Africa, so I
guess that's a dry wine grape.