Cocktails with Dry sparkling wine
Dry sparkling wine is a wine holding fermentation-derived carbon dioxide under pressure, finished at the drier, low-sugar end of the sweetness scale.
ABV11–12%
Taste profile
Aromas of orchard fruit, citrus and bready or yeasty notes from lees contact; the palate is crisp and lightly sweet to bone-dry, carried by a fine, persistent bead of bubbles and bright acidity.
How it's used
A lengthener poured cold to top and lift a build, contributing effervescence, acidity and low-proof volume rather than being shaken; it is added last so the bubbles survive, and dosed generously to fill the glass.
Substitutes for Dry sparkling wine
Another dry, fermentation-carbonated white or rosé sparkling wine of the brut style.
Often confused with
Sec / 'Dry' sweetness-category sparkling wine
Colloquially 'dry sparkling wine' means the driest styles (brut, <12 g/L residual sugar). But on an EU sparkling-wine label the specific term 'Dry' (Sec) is a distinct sweetness category of roughly 17-32 g/L residual sugar, which is noticeably SWEETER than brut and extra dry. A wine labelled 'Dry/Sec' is therefore not the driest style despite its name.
Carbonated wine
