What do words like brut and dry mean?
These terms refer to how sweet a sparkling wine or champagne is. The first champagnes were quite sweet or doux (pronounced doo); the next wines that were a little less sweet were called demi-sec or half-dry in English. Next came dry wines, which had slightly less sugar still. Brut (pronounced broot) wines now are the most common style and have so little sugar that its flavor is almost imperceptible. The newest style is extra brut or brut nature, which isn t finished off with a shot of sweetened wine at the end like all the other styles of champagne and sparkling wine.
