🍷 Amabile
Also known as: medium-sweet Italian wine
An Italian sugar-content term for medium-sweet wine in EU labelling rules: above medium dry and up to 45 g/l.
Amabile is an Italian term for a medium-sweet wine. It is listed among the terms for “medium” in Annex III, Part B of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33, which sets the sugar terms for wines other than sparkling wines.
In that annex, medium means a sugar content above the limit for medium dry and up to 45 grams per litre. Medium dry in turn means above the dry limit and up to 12 g/l, or up to 18 g/l if the total acidity, in grams of tartaric acid per litre, is no more than 10 g/l below the residual sugar. Dry is up to 4 g/l, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is no more than 2 g/l below the sugar. Sweet starts at 45 g/l.
The same list of “medium” terms includes moelleux (French), lieblich (German), semidulce (Spanish), meio doce (Portuguese) and półsłodkie (Polish). Other Italian terms sit in the neighbouring groups: abboccato is listed with medium dry (halbtrocken, demi-sec), and dolce with sweet (doux, mild).
On a bottle of still wine, amabile is only a sugar term, and putting it on the label is optional (Article 52). A bottle may show amabile, the German lieblich, the French moelleux or no sugar word at all. The sugar content is expressed as fructose and glucose, and the real value may not differ from the label by more than 1 g/l.
How it connects to Wine
🍷 Amabile → made in → 🗺️ Italian wine → kind of → 🗺️ Wines of Europe → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🍷 Medium-sweet wine
- Where it is made
- 🗺️ Italian wine
- Similar and different
- 🍷 Abboccato, 🍷 Medium-sweet wine, 🍷 Dolce
Frequently asked questions
Is it true that amabile and abboccato mean the same thing?
No. Abboccato is listed with medium dry (halbtrocken, demi-sec), while amabile belongs to the medium group.
How closely must the sugar value match an amabile label?
The real value may not differ from the label by more than 1 g/l.
How do you say amabile in German and Spanish?
Lieblich in German and semidulce in Spanish.
Similar
🍷 Moelleux · 🍷 Lieblich · 🍷 Medium-dry wine · 🍷 Abboccato · 🍷 Dolce · 🍷 Col fondo
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