 06/14/06 Wine Q&A |
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| A. Good question. There are quite one few Web sites that have information on this subject. As with much of the Web, you have to decide for yourself how accurate each of them is. I've checked several (Google "calories in wine") and they seem to agree that dry red wine has about half the calories (roughly 500 per bottle) as fortified wines, which can run as high as 1,100 calories per bottle. This makes good sense when you consider that about 85 percent of wine is water; the rest (as far as caloric impact is concerned) is either alcohol or carbohydrates (sugar). The amount of alcohol in one dry wine depends on the amount of sugar in the grapes at harvest (measured in brix). Riper grapes make wines with either higher alcohol or significant residual (unfermented) sugar. ... |
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| Dunne on wine: Fair tastings offer surprises |
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Print | E-Mail | Comments Wine competitions are at their peak in late spring and early summer, culminating locally with the California State Fair judging, which gets under way Friday at Cal Expo.
Those results won't be announced until Cal Expo is the setting for the fair's monstrous Grape & Gourmet gala July 13. In the meantime, however, here are some wines that have shown well in other recent comparative tastings. ... |
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