Sugar content in sparkling wine

We explain the sparkling wine production process in detail in this article. Now we turn our focus to the addition of sugar (known as dosage), by which the winemaker determines how dry or sweet his sparkling wine should be. There are different levels of sweetness for sparkling wines:

• Brut Nature
  0–3 g/l of residual sugar = less than 1 cube of sugar
• Extra Brut
  0–6 g/l of residual sugar = max. 1.5 cubes of sugar
• Brut
  6–12 g/l of residual sugar = 1.5 to max. 3 cubes of sugar
• Extra Dry
  12–17 g/l of residual sugar = 3 to max. 4 cubes of sugar
• Dry
  17–32 g/l of residual sugar = 4 to max. 8 cubes of sugar
• Demi-Sec
  32–50 g/l of residual sugar = 8 to max. 12 cubes of sugar
• Doux
  50+ g/l of residual sugar = more than 12 cubes of sugar