Low Alcohol Red Wine

adk1971
adk1971 Posts: 64 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Can anybody recommend a decent low alcohol red wine? I found the 0.5% ones to be a bit too much like grape juice. Sainsbury's do an 8% red wine which was pretty good but struggling to find any others. Any ideas?

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  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    If it's 8% it's not wine. At best, it's sangria.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    https://www.drinksplanet.com/how-do-we-increase-the-alcohol-content-in-home-made-wine-415207.html

    There might be something out there for increasing the alcohol content in commercial wine.
  • adk1971
    adk1971 Posts: 64 Member
    Haha, was labelled as red wine. So many seem to be around the 13 - 14.5% margin these days.
  • adk1971
    adk1971 Posts: 64 Member
    Suspect you could well be right!!
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    Half wine half something else?
  • adk1971
    adk1971 Posts: 64 Member
    Thinking outside of the box :-)
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    adk1971 wrote: »
    Can anybody recommend a decent low alcohol red wine? I found the 0.5% ones to be a bit too much like grape juice. Sainsbury's do an 8% red wine which was pretty good but struggling to find any others. Any ideas?

    Why the need for a low alcohol red wine? I shouldn’t think there would be much difference in calories?
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    adk1971 wrote: »
    Thinking outside of the box :-)
    I like wine in a box. Lol
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    adk1971 wrote: »
    Thinking outside of the box :-)
    I like wine in a box. Lol

    I prefer wine in a chair but if you want to sit in a box go ahead. :tongue:
  • rj0150684
    rj0150684 Posts: 227 Member
    Drinking a low alcohol wine would be like smoking a low nicotine cigarette. Vile stuff with the only reason to use it removed.
  • af240
    af240 Posts: 37 Member
    tennisdude2004 wrote: »
    adk1971 wrote: »
    Can anybody recommend a decent low alcohol red wine? I found the 0.5% ones to be a bit too much like grape juice. Sainsbury's do an 8% red wine which was pretty good but struggling to find any others. Any ideas?

    Why the need for a low alcohol red wine? I shouldn’t think there would be much difference in calories?

    Actually wine with higher alcohol content would have less calories, since alcohol has less calories per unit of volume than sugar. How -much- of a difference it is I'm not sure lol
  • Slashnl
    Slashnl Posts: 339 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    adk1971 wrote: »
    Thinking outside of the box :-)
    I like wine in a box. Lol

    Would you drink it in a box?
    Would you drink it with a fox?

    I love it when an MFP post takes an unexpected turn!
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    The chair for drinking wine from a box.

    Cheater. :lol:

  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    adk1971 wrote: »
    Can anybody recommend a decent low alcohol red wine? I found the 0.5% ones to be a bit too much like grape juice. Sainsbury's do an 8% red wine which was pretty good but struggling to find any others. Any ideas?

    Add water or another mixture to the 8 % you like?

    Or ice.

    /steps back out of reach of exploding heads/
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    adk1971 wrote: »
    Thinking outside of the box :-)

    I'll mix 20% grape juice with kombucha and get back to you with a report. It's a thing somewhere, somewhere I haven't been.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    I like wine, in anything.
  • PKM0515
    PKM0515 Posts: 3,089 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    adk1971 wrote: »
    Thinking outside of the box :-)
    I like wine in a box. Lol

    Would you drink it in a box?
    Would you drink it with a fox?

    Would you drink it with some lox?
    Would you drink it without socks?
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Would you drink it on the rocks?
    Would you drink it with the jocks?
  • mazcor536
    mazcor536 Posts: 115 Member
    Surely the sensible thing would be to get the strongest wine you can find? ;) You’ll get a buzz from a much smaller quantity, therefore saving yourself from consuming too many calories!
  • Maxxitt
    Maxxitt Posts: 1,281 Member
    The only way I have found to have a decent red wine that is lower calorie is to make it a spritzer with just a little seltzer. But it's a trade-off, losing the fullness of the flavor.
  • DX2JX2
    DX2JX2 Posts: 1,921 Member
    The only low alcohol wines I can think of are white and sweet (moscato d'asti and the like). They can be very good, but don't seem to be what you're looking for.

    Outside of that, you can probably find some reds at 10%-12%. Maybe a lambrusco or beujolais nouveau or something like that. 13% tends to be the floor for the reds that I like (but I admittedly like my wine on the richer side).
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Would you drink it on the docks?
    Would you drink it with the hawks?
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Would you drink it on the docks?
    Would you drink it with the hawks?

    I would drink it on the docks
    I would drink it with the hawks
    I would drink it on the rocks
    I would drink it with the jocks
    I would drink it in a box
    I would drink it with a fox

    I will drink red wine with ease
    Full strength alcohol if you please
    I will drink red wine on evenings brisk
    Water it down at your own risk!

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