Country white
Flowers, garden fruit and gluts: elderflower, rhubarb, gooseberry, apple. Usually finished off-dry, because most of these have acidity and no body.
The numbers
Each bar drawn against all 30 styles
Alcohol
10-13%
10% - 13%
Titratable acidity
5.5-8 g/L
5.5 - 8
pH
3-3.5
3.0 - 3.5
Residual sugar
0-40 g/L
0 - 40
Serve at
8-11 C
Worth opening after
6 months
and it keeps improving to roughly 3 years
Sulphite at pH 3.25
23 mg/L
free SO2, for 0.8 mg/L molecular
What goes wrong
Fermenting it dry out of habit. At TA 8 and 11% alcohol with no tannin and no glycerol, dry means thin. A few grams of sugar makes it a wine.
No legal definition sets these figures. They are typical published analyses of commercial examples, compiled as a planning aid.
Make it
A recipe on this site made to this style
Every figure below is computed from the ingredients and checked against the ranges above before the page is built.
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