>I prefer my wines dry so I would like to avoid sweetening also
>with the amount of fruit I have used the "sweet" flavor of the fruit stays
>on the palate so I am afraid that a little bit of residual sugar might make
>the wine sickly sweet.

If you only like dry wines I would not reccomend making strawberry. It
NEEDS residual sugar and can not be realistically palatable as a dry wine.
It would taste like eating a fresh strawberry that has no sweetness.