These red blends are also generally more affordable than single varietals from Bordeaux, Napa Valley, or Australia. Some red wines blend several varietals to elicit different flavors or tasting characteristics. Red wines are categorized by varietals - the type of grape that is used to produce the wine. Here, we’ll break down the best red wine options and help you choose the ones you’ll like most based on your preferences. From almonds and berry fruits to cherry-like and velvety, there’s a red wine out there for you. There are hundreds of tasting notes for every taste bud. Each wine is unique with its own tasting notes and aromas to draw in your senses. The red wine your best friend falls head over heels for might not necessarily be your jam. Some prefer the richness of full-bodied red while others find themselves coming back to the easy drinking of an airy, light-bodied red. Some people like it sweet and others like it dry. So there you have it – some information to take with you wine shopping and some sweeties to keep an eye out for.Discovering the best red wine is all about tastes. Riunite has a pedigree as being America’s best-selling import wine in the 1970’s. This wine has 5% residual sugar (50 g/L), an 8% ABV, and retails for around $6. RiuniteĪ semi-sparkling wine from the Emilia Romanga region of northern Italy, made from the Lambrusco grape. Really sweet.” This sweetie has an 11% ABV and retails at around $10.
The manufacturers at Bully Hill Wines didn’t give us the sugar content, but “it’s sweet. Wildly popular, Sweet Walter is a blend of Concord, Rougeon, and Baco grapes from the Finger Lakes, NY region. With a 5.7% residual sugar rate, it’s on the dryer side, but with a 13% ABV, it’ll get the party started. Jam JarĪ sweet red wine from South Africa made with the Shiraz grape. I, however, connected with some who do delight in the sweetness, and they recommend the following sweet reds with gusto. There are veteran sommeliers who don’t even know what sweet wines to recommend because they don’t prefer sweeter tastes. Some can be as high as 15% ABV, and we’ve all been in a situation where we tackled more sweet things than we planned to in a single sitting. Our single word of caution: keep an eye out for the alcohol content of the fuller-bodied sweet reds. More medium-sweet reds like Zinfandels and Malbec are great for feasts where there’s going to be a lot of meat! The sweetest reds like Ports may be “syrupy” to some, but pairing them with an indulgent dessert like a rich chocolate cake or cheesecakes complements the sweetness beautifully. Very Sweet WinesĮveryone has different tastes in wine and some may cringe at the idea of a sweet wine, but a good combination with wine has been known to change a few minds. Sweet wines range from Medium Sweet, the lower end of the residual sugars, to Very Sweet, where we’re approaching that twenty percent.
Let’s get into the stuff you can actually use when you’re shopping the labels. Sweet wines can reach a super sweet twenty percent of leftover residual sugars in the bottle!īut that’s all just some wine knowledge for you to throw down at your next Girls’ Night. So in short, sweet wines are wines that were halted earlier in the fermentation process than dry wines. The longer a wine ferments, the fewer residual sugars are left behind. The natural sugars in grapes are converted into alcohol during the fermentation process. It’s always a lot less intimidating to just ask someone who knows wine to bring you what you’re asking for, but I, as your Fairy Wine Mother, am here to give you some confidence so you can start venturing out on your own.Īll wines contain sugar – “residual sugars” as a matter of fact. Believe it or not, that’s a great place to start. So you’ve narrowed your wine preferences down to red. If you think sweet wines are what you’ve been missing all your life, or you’re sympathetic to our cause, join me! Let’s bust these sweet red wine myths and sip onward! Decoding the Sweet Reds We are here to dash those myths to dust! Wine is for everyone, sweet wines are valid, and I am leading this revolution! Sweet wines sometimes get a bad wrap because some believe they taste cheaper or aren’t made well. You might just be calibrated to prefer sweeter wines! If you’ve found that the classic wines everyone always suggests just leaves a (literally) bitter taste in your mouth, fear not! Just because you don’t enjoy the dry stuff doesn’t mean you don’t have a refined palette. As you start to venture outside the world of the almost universally affordable, judgment-free land of boxed wines and two-buck chucks, you might find yourself worrying that wine just isn’t FOR you.
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