My Dr says drink wine?

Question

What is a good sweet red wine?

sorry.......if I wanted to be corrected I'd have asked my wife.

Answer 1

Auntiem should have read further down the wine boards - lol

Don't think sweet... that's residual sugars... think lighter and fruity. That's what makes it easier to drink for folks just starting out with red wine.

Try Lambrusco - Reunite has been around for years... but my favorite is from Trader Joe's - Le Grotte Regianno Lambrusco. It's only about $5 a bottle and it's very tasty.

Visit your local wine guy and ask for red wines that are "fruity and light on tannins." This should yield you some very drinkable wines. You may want to concentrate on merlots, garnacha blends and sangioveses as they tend to have softer tannins (that drying feeling that comes across like a "bite" on your tongue when drinking red wine.)

If you have a Trader Joe's, try Abrazo del Toro Tinto (a garnacha/temperanillo blend), Villa Cerrina Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, or Il Valore Sangiovese. They're all about $5 a bottle and very tasty and soft.

If not, try Citra Sangiovese or Montepulciano d'Abruzzo (should be available in your local supermarket) This is another inexpensive find that's very tasty. Also Louis Jadot Beaujolais Villages (prounounced villAHGE)

For the best health benefit, try to work your palate up to cabernet sauvignon and red zinfandel. They have the biggest bite... the most tannins... but that comes from the skin of the grape and that's where the greatest health benefit comes from as well.

Happy sipping!

P.S. - Invest $10 in a wine vacuum sealer kit. It's a suction device and two vacuum stoppers. You pour your glass of wine, then vacuum seal the bottle to suck oxygen out of the wine and keep it tasting better longer. I'm sure your doc is only talking about maybe a glass a day (5oz) and there's about 5 servings in each 750ml bottle, so this will keep it fresh, as will refrigeration. Just bring everything except the Lambruscos up to cool room temp (maybe 60 or 65) before trying to drink them :)

Answer 2

You have a very good Dr.

Red wine is very good for you in moderation, no more than 1 litre a day. Drinking red wine reduces the amount of medication taken for some ailments.

Try DRY wines they are better for you anyway. Sugar the sweetener weather natural or artificial are not beneficial to your health.

If you can stomach it,alcohol free red wine is sweet and can be chilled to lower the apparent sweetness of the liquid.

As you get accustomed to drinking wine the likely hood is that you will turn to the drier reds, they have more to offer an educated palate.

There is no need to become a wine snob, drink what you find satisfying, the price and label mean nothing if you prefer a cheaper wine.

Here in Spain we drink wine from around 40 centomos, dirt cheap, I also have a taste for more expensive wines but the Euro only goes so far.

Fortified wines tend to be sweeter than standard fermented and aged wines.

Fortified wines include many types of Sherry and Port.

Answer 3

The bad news is that a sweet red table wine is a rare thing. Most people find that dry (unsweet) wines go much better with food than sweet ones do, and just about everyone who drinks wine regularly has acquired a taste for the dry kind.

In fact, I am personally aware of just one sweet red wine, period, and it's a little bit of a rarity: It's a Greek red called "Mavrodaphne," and it generally sells for about $5 to $6. You might ask a local wine shop about it.

In all seriousness, though, if you're interested in consuming red wine with meals as a matter of course, it would pay you to develop a taste for drier wines. I'd suggest starting with a light, fruity red, such as any of the various Beaujolais from France, the "Gamay Beaujolais" equivalent from California (The Beringer 1995 "Nouveau" Gamay Beaujolais that's just out and is selling around the US for about $5 is an excellent one), or a good red Zinfandel -- the Rosenblum and Rabbit Ridge wineries in California makes some very good ones that aren't too pricey.

Try one of these, don't drink it by itself but sip it with the meal (roast chicken would work fine, or steaks or lamb if you're a red-meat eater), and I think you'll begin to see that the marriage of good food with a quality dry red wine is a match made in heaven.

Answer 4

your right that first answer was just an insult and they didnt sugest a wine since they were SO informed about wine, personally i drink vodka, i have heard red wine is good for you in moderation, 2 suggestions 1 go to a couple of the local resturant bars (resturants not diners you know posh places) and ask the bar manager for sugestions they serve wine all the time, also stores often sell single servings of wine try a few out till you find one you like - it's about personal taste after all, also the single serving bottles means if you have 1 you have had a sensible amount of red wine from the dr's perspective but if you buy a full bottle you might have more than a single serving and a full bottle of wine is too much in one sitting from your dr's perspective not sure how he'd feel about half a bottle ask them, oh and port is stronger than normal wine so this needs to be taken into consideration if you drink port also i'm not sure if port has the same medicinal effects as red wine so you should check that

Answer 5

GOOD and SWEET don't go together when talking about wine.

Also SWEET is not the way to refer to a red, you should be referring to the amount of body the wine has.

AND IN ANSWER TO MINI PROPHET

How the hell can I suggest any wines when the original poster hasn't given any info on the sort of reds they like.

It's no point suggesting anything on the basis of SWEET as reds are too complex for that.

A light bodied wine can taste just as sweet/dry as a full bodied.

My preference would be a medium nice Rioja, Tempranillo or something along the lines of a Monte Pulcanno D'Abruzzo but how do I suggest that to someone who wants SWEET RED WINE.

It's impossible as they all have different levels of tannin.

Curious Cooks answer of Mavrodaphne is a possibility, but definately not something I would recommend anyone drink, personally I find it undrinkable, it's sickly sweet.

The same could be said of some sweetened Turkish red wines that I have had forced on me while on holiday trips there (and my experience is that very few non-turkish people find them drinkable - whereas the whites are pretty good).

Answer 6

t is rare to find a sweet red wine unless it is Port, although there are exceptions e.g. Bonnie Bonair from Bonair Winery -- they are targeting people just like you. It is a pretty decent quaff as well.

Answer 7

Boonsfarm good ol cheap wine.

Answer 8

Lambrusco is a wonderful red you can even drink chilled or on ice ( I prefer white zin, but the cardiologist I work for told me red is best )

Answer 9

I've heard it said that alcohol in moderation can be beneficial to the human body. I'm not so sure it's true, because I don't like what it does to my own system. So I do what I can to avoid it.

Answer 10

Chianti or rose (with an accent on the e)