"Raymond" > wrote in
:

> Does it mean that a wine that has high acidity and zero sugar which is
> supposedly sour can be considered as balanced because our brain
> interprets the smell of ripe fruits as sweetness. After my humble
> experiment, I am not quite convinced. I had two glasses of pure lime
> juice. One unsweetened and the other with some sugar.
> Obviously, the latter tasted much better because the sugar was in
> harmony with the acidity. Though the formal has smell of ripe lime,
> the inadequacy of sweetness threw it off balance. My conclusion: a
> high acidity bone-dry wine is never balanced.
>
the problem is that there is a higher acid content to lime juice than grape
and it takes a lot of sugar to overcome the sourness of a Lime in grapes
the two are more in harmony



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