Knowing All About Red Wines is not just for experts. When beginning your search into understanding wine, or just enjoying wine and wanting to know what to get for dinner, it starts with understanding the makeup of the wine and what creates the taste. Hopefully this page helps you with understanding All About Red Wines.
There are simple facts about Red Wine that once understood, make deciding easy. Knowing the type of grape, where it is grown and how it is made, helps understand labels better and therefore deciding which one to get better. The taste of that wine comes from all of these factors, as well as, helping us know what food to pair it with.
The right wine and food pairing makes the meal a delicious event to be cherished and remembered. The opposite is also true. The wrong wine with your food, or wrong food with your wine, is an experience not to be desired. This is an area of education that helps us all enjoy every blessing and the Luxury that wine can add to our lives. I subscribe to a few newsletters and below are 12 Fascinating facts that I learned from reading their articles. I hope posting that here helps you as much as it helped me. Go subscribe to the Wine Folly yourself if you want even more education.
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12 Fascinating Facts: All About Red Wine
Here are 12 facts that will completely change the way you think about red wine. Taken from The Wine Folly
1. Drinking red wine in small doses is better for you than not drinking at all!
It might come as a surprise, but several trial studies have shown moderate red wine consumption to be better for you than not drinking at all. Why? The antioxidants found in red wine lower incidences of cardiovascular disease, mortality, and type-2 diabetes. Of course, if you drink more than you’re supposed to, the benefits are replaced by increased health risks. So, do yourself a favor, drink red wine in moderation.
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2. Red wine’s health benefits come from tannin.
Pretty much everything in wine that’s not alcohol or water is a type of polyphenol. Polyphenols include tannin, color pigment, wine aromas, resveratrol, and about 5,000 other plant compounds. Of these polyphenols, the most abundant in wine for health reasons are Procyanidins, which are a type of condensed tannin also found in green tea and dark chocolate. This compound is specifically associated with inhibiting cholesterol plaque in blood vessels, which is highly beneficial to heart health and longevity.
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3. Some red wines are better for you than others.
Not all red wines are made the same. Some wines have significantly higher levels of “good for you stuff” than others (condensed tannins–see above). For example, Cabernet Sauvignon has more condensed tannins than Pinot Noir, but both wines have much less than Tannat, Petite Sirah, or Sagrantino. While it’s rather difficult to determine which wines are best (exactly), here are some clues:
- Dry red wines are better than sweet wines.
- Red wines with lower alcohol (preferably below 13{6f18c410823b062d43b87474c7b8a65215b8acf31b53a155add52209b661b548} ABV) are better than high alcohol wines
- Red wines with higher tannin (those that are more astringent) are better than low tannin wines.
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4. Young red wines are better for you than old red wines.
We’ve been told for years that old wines are the best wines. It’s true that some wines taste better when well-aged, but when it comes to the health aspects of wine, old wine isn’t as good! Young red wines contain greater tannin levels than any other type of wine.
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5. The color in red wine comes from the grape skins.
The color in wine comes from a plant pigment called anthocyanin, which is found in the skins of red grapes.
6. As red wines age, they become lighter in color.
The color becomes less intense as wine ages. Very old wines are pale and translucent in color.
7. Nearly all red wines are made from one species of grape.
All of the most common red wines, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot, and Pinot Noir are of just one species of grape: Vitis vinifera. There are certainly other species used for wine (there are some 65-70 vitis species), but they are very rarely used for wine. Vitis vinifera is commonly considered the wine grape species. And, get this, Vitis vinifera didn’t originate in France. It came from Eastern Europe!
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8. Red grapes are older than white wine grapes.
The yellow and green-colored grapes that produce white wines are thought to have originally come from a DNA mutation of red grapevines. This is a pretty convincing hypothesis, since Pinot Noir and Pinot Blanc share the same DNA.
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9. Red wines commonly contain less sulfites than white wines.
In general, sulfite levels in red wines are lower than white wines. This is because red wines tend to be more chemically stable than white wines and do not degrade as quickly.
10. Red wines age longer than white wines.
Red wines contain color and tannin, which generally speaking, helps preserve them for greater lengths than white wines. People often call these traits in wine “structure” and use their presence as an indicator of how long a wine will age. As Wine Ambassadors, we dont have to worry about the age. It is hand picked for us and that info is always on an info sheet, which includes the Best Drank By date.
11. Red wine grapes can be made into white wine.
Because the color comes from grape skins (and not the juice), it’s possible to make a white wine out of red grapes. The wine is made like white wine, without contact with the grape skins. This happens more than you might imagine. For example, a Blanc de Noirs Champagne is a white sparkling wine made with Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier (red) grapes.
12. Hundreds of aromas found in red wine come from just grapes.
All those aromas of cherry, berry, jam, and herbs found in a glass of red wine are derived from nothing more than fermented grapes and the aging wine in oak barrels. There are no flavor additives.
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I hope this provides you with all you need to know about Red Wines. Watch for Food Pairing articles to come out soon.