Champagne Extra-Sec (or extra-dry) is the term used to define wines that are roughly in the middle of the sweetness scale. Even though the words extra and dry, these type of champagne is very far from the driest type of champagne. Extra-Sec sparkling wine has between 12 and 17 grams of residual sugar per liter.
The official sweetness levels of champagne are:
- Doux (50+ g/L)
- Demi-sec (33–50 g/L)
- Sec (17–35 g/L)
- Extra-Sec (12–20 g/L)
- Brut (0–12 g/L)
- Extra Brut (0–6 g/L)
- Brut Nature/Zero (0–3 g/L).