How Many Calories in a Glass of Wine?

Calories in alcohol. Check the website for more information, and some extracts are shown below:

Pure alcohol contains 7 calories per gram, which is almost twice the calories of carbohydrate or protein (both contain about 4 calories per gram), but its not quite as bad as the calories in fat (9 calories per gram). Therefore, a standard drink that contains 14 grams of alcohol, will contain at least 98 calories. The difference in calories between these drinks is the result of their carb level.

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east amount of calories. But are there any diet or light wines available? Wines can be made light by decreasing either one or both sources of calories, that is alcohol or sugar. Most commonly, the calories are reduced by picking the grapes very early, before full maturity, or by removing the alcohol in a finished wine through a vacuum distillation process.

A typical example is White Lie by Beringer Blass (which is marketed specifically to women). Beringer Blass developed a unique technique for making this Californian wine that involved harvesting the grapes earlier in the picking season when they have lower sugar content (brix) and fermenting the juice all the way to dryness before blending. This technique, dubbed Early Season and trademarked by Beringer Blass, results in a wine that tastes crisp and fruity but is also low in sugar, naturally making it low in alcohol and calories.

A more recent example is Slender Wines by Chateau Thomas Winery of Indiana (that’s right Indiana!). This line of diet wines (white, blush and red) was recently included in the 81st Annual Academy Awards Oscar Baskets, and at $10 per bottle, it’s very high-end indeed. Its claim to fame: “The World’s Only Naturally-Sweetened Sugar-Free Wine”. Slender Wine is sweetened with Zerose, a natural non-caloric sweetener that has no calories, no carbs, no fats and apparently no aftertaste (or just taste?). But, at a healthy 12% alcohol it’s at least 100 calories per standard serving. This wine is the brain child of Dr. Charles Thomas, a no-longer practicing Obstetrician-Gynecologist, and is targeted at women (surprise!) and diabetics.

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