Dry is the name given to less sweet wines – it has nothing to do with being less wet. Dry ones, unlike sweets, have no fermentable residual sugar. "The dry name was determined by law and therefore does not have a logical explanation," explains Arthur Azevedo, executive director of the Brazilian Association of Sommeliers (SP). Wine can be dry, medium dry, sweet or very sweet, the higher the amount of residual sugar per liter of drink