6 Wine Recommendations for Beginners

Passionate customers of the wine admire the quality and rarity that drinking Petrus offers them, pushing up the already high demand. Raw passion is what drives these prices so high- and justifiably so. Next time you’re presented with a US$5,000 Petrus bottle, know that you’re getting it for a bargain.

Balanced. A balanced wine should have its basic flavor components in good proportion. Our taste buds detect sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Sweet (residual sugar) and sour (acidity) are obviously important components of wine.

• Sauvignon Blanc. Sauvignon Blanc is a light-bodied wine that will usually have aromas of grapefruit, asparagus, and some herbaceous elements.
• Pinot Gris. Pinot Gris, also known as Pinot Grigio, is a light to medium-bodied white wine.
• Chardonnay.
• Pinot Noir.
• Zinfandel.
• Cabernet Sauvignon.

By swirling, a wine’s aromas attach themselves to oxygen (and are thus less masked by alcohol) and are easier to smell. If you want to test the power of the nose, try plugging your nostrils and tasting the wine at the same time. 2. Swirling actually eliminates foul-smelling compounds.

Wine doesn’t get you drunk Now, depending on the type of wine, wines can have a varying alcohol content. There are wines that have alcohol has high has 15 or 17 percent. Also, if wines are drunk quickly and not over a period of time, then the alcohol can definitely hit you and make you feel high.

Although close in alcohol content, wine enters the bloodstream faster and will get you more drunk over the same amount of time as beer. There are also arguments that wine makes you feel more relaxed because you sip it slowly, whereas beer is often drank more quickly.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines moderate drinking for a woman as no more than three drinks on a single day and no more than seven drinks a week. That is, there may be a day you have three glasses of wine, but that’s not every day. You drink 14 to 21 glasses of wine a week.

So, can you keep drinking a daily glass of wine? The simple answer: yes! The not-so-simple answer: it’s ultimately up to you. Research still supports the idea that light to moderate amounts of red wine (one glass per night) have mostly beneficial or neutral effects on our health.

Is Wine Good for Women? – 6 Best Girly Wines

1. Château d’Esclans Rock Angel, France.
2. Happy Bitch Rosé
3. Bottega Sparkling Moscato.
4. Chocolate Shop, The Chocolate Lover’s Wine.
5. Cabernet Sauvignon.
6. Pinot Noir.

The amount of sugar in a bottle of wine can vary from 4 grams to 220 grams per litre. The lowest sugar wine is red wine. Red wine has the least amount of sugar which is 0.9g per 175ml glass.

Were you aware that, according to an American study, non-alcoholic red wine decreases the risk of cardio-vascular disease? It lowers blood pressure thereby reducing the risk of a heart attack by 20% and the risk of developing cardio-vascular disease by 14%.

can be identical to problematic drinking. Non-alcoholic beverages can be triggering. The taste can provide a placebo effect, making you feel drunk, or even encouraging you to go back to classic alcoholic drinks.

Alcohol-free wine is similar to beer in that it will usually be higher in sugar, but lower in calories than its full-strength counterpart. You will find that it will likely taste sweeter, and may not give you the same balance of flavour as full-strength wine.

Weibel Vineyards’ sparkling drink contains 0 percent alcohol but still has that bubbly taste. Caliornia’s finest, sans alcohol. This wine is aged in oak barrels in Paso Robles, CA, and it’s got a dry, soft tannin taste despite its deep, berry flavor. Don’t worry, the alcohol inside is removed before bottling.

Top ten low- and no-alcohol wines for Dry January and beyond

• Red. Lindeman’s Cabernet Sauvignon. Low-alcohol red wine is hard to do well but this one is very good indeed.
• White. Marks and Spencer Sauvignon Blanc.
• Rosé Marks and Spencer Rosé
• Sparkling. Lindeman’s Chardonnay Pinot Noir Muscat.

Our Top 10 Non-Alcoholic Wines

• Ariel Cabernet Sauvignon.
• Sutter Home Fre Moscato.
• Chateau de De Fleur Non-alcoholic Champagne.
• Sutter Home Fre Brut Champagne.
• Ariel Chardonnay.
• Eisberg Cabernet Sauvignon.

While grape juice is the unfermented juice sourced from grapes, non-alcoholic wine goes through the same fermentation and aging process as regular wine, only to have the alcohol removed at the last stages. This makes non-alcoholic wine much less sugary than grape juice and provides a real wine flavor.

Non-alcoholic wine starts off as regular wine. In order to remove the alcohol, wineries filter it, centrifuge it through a fancy machine, or burn off the alcohol like you would in cooking. To compensate for the loss in flavor caused by the high temperatures, they normally add back in fruit juice or flavor additives.

St. Regis Chardonnay is almost entirely alcohol-free. It contains 0.5 percent ABV (alcohol by volume), similar to kombucha and other fermented beverages. This is a great non-alcoholic white wine for anyone hoping to cut back on alcohol.

Once un-corking and opening reds should be used within 2 weeks and whites should be used within 3 days. That’s typically how long the flavor lasts after opening before it begins to taste sour or “vinegary”. Be sure to bring red wine to room temperature for best quality before drinking.