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Red Wine
While juice from black grapes is actually greenish-white, red wine gets its color from the pigments in the grape skin. As the wine ages, it loses its color. The antioxidants and resveratrol in red wine are also thought to have major health benefits.
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How many ounces of red wine is healthy to drink in aday?
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There is no single right answer. Personal preference and size of the person matter.
For a typical person to achieve the health benefits of drinking red-wine, one 5 to 7 oz of wine with a meal is a good target amount.
If you are concerned about consuming too much alcohol, keep in mind that most of the health benefits of drinking wine can also be achieved by drinking dark grape juice. There is some research that suggests that a small amount of alcohol is beneficial, so you won't get that from grape juice. But certainly, too much alcohol will more than offset any health benefits from drinking a modest amount of wine. If you have concerns about alcohol consumption, stick to the grape juice.
Do you chill red wine after opening?
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Yes you can chill red wine at any stage. It is typically served at room temperature but chilling after the bottle is opened will slow the oxidation process. What i recommend is that you have a smaller bottle handy so that you can fill it up to the top and store it somewhere. That will leave you with a drinkable amount and will also make sure that the leftover wine does not oxidize.
How do you remove red wine from suede?
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Stain Rx (a.k.a. Erado-Sol), is the best stain remover out there. I have been using it on red wine stains since 1969. Just touch it to red wine, iodine, berries (INCLUDING POMEGRANATE), fruit punch, cranberry juice, and the stains disappear in a second. Stains such as mascara, lipstick, blood, balsamic vinegar, vanilla extract and others come out with a little massaging and rinsing. Soak your diamond, gold and platinum jewelry in it for 20 minutes to overnight, you won't believe it! By the way, the University of California -- Davis did a study on red wine stain removal and the #1, ready to use winner was Stain Rx (a.k.a. Erado-Sol). It killed Wine Away which is available everywhere. Go to (link removed)to see what else it does. As far as carpeting and upholstery: I use Stain Rx on carpeting and upholstery all the time and have the method down. First, I vacuum the entire carpet or piece of upholstery being treated. Then I clean the entire carpet or upholstery with my Hoover Steam-Vac, a carpet shampooer is at least as good, plus, I ONLY use warm water - no detergent at all. The Hoover sprays in water and vacuums it out. For the carpet I use the Steam-Vac and on upholstery I use the Steam-Vac attachments to do this. While the carpet or upholstery is still wet from this step, do the following; Depending on the size of the stain, put a "dot" of Stain Rx on your fingertip and rub out one stain at a time. After treating a stain, remove all the soapy residue from that area using the instructions below and go on to the next stain. HERE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: You have to remove all the soapy residue using the attachments from the Steam-Vac, carpet shampooer or a wet/dry shop vacuum. RINSE OUT ALL OF THE SOAPY RESIDUE USING WATER AND THE VACUUM. If you leave Stain Rx in the area, dust will stick forming a gray spot in a few weeks. If this happens, just add water and remove all of the soapy residue.
How long will open red wine stay good for?
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about 3-5 days depending on how you store it
Can you drink red wine with ice?
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Yes, and when consumed in moderation, it is also good for health and longevity.
Where are the grapes that produce red wine grown?
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There are hundreds of grape varieties which are used to make red wine. Some of the more popular red wine grape varieties include: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir and Syrah. Different varieties are used depending on the region, soil and growing conditions. Different types of grapes are also blended to make red wine.
How do you get a red wine stain out of a pink cotton shirt?
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you can get a product named oxy clean. it costs 5$. then you just put the oxy clean powder on your shirt and add some water on it and it'll come out! Hope this helped.
Calories one glass of red wine?
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Ninety to 105, depending on the sugar content of the wine. That's in a standard 6 ounce serving.
Can cooking Sherry be used instead of Red Wine Vinegar?
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Yes, but the flavors will be different. And you should use real wine or real sherry, not the salt heavy 'cooking' versions found in many grocery stores. The alcohol releases and dissolves some flavors that water based recipes will not, adding to the flavors.
Essentially any alcohol should be allowed to evaporate through heating to leave the flavor of the wine used. Whether a recipe calls for cooking sherry, wine, or not, I often deglaze any meats cooked in a frying pan with red or white wine. The French say that you should use the best wine you can afford for this process but I use whatever I have to hand.
Can you use red wine instead of port wine?
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I would say yes for most recipes.
Use a richer full bodied red wine. If you are using the wine in a sweet dish (eg pears poached in wine) you may need to add something to make up fro the lower sugar in the the red wine, sugar or perhaps a spoonful of honey.
Best french wine?
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I'll give you a quick rundown by region.
Bordeaux:
Ch. Lafite-Rothschild, Ch. Mouton Rothschild, Ch. Haut Brion, Ch. Latour, Ch. Margaux, Ch. Leoville Las Casses, Ch. Ausone, Ch. Clinet, Ch. Petrus, Ch. d'Y quem
Burgundy:
Dom. de la Romanee-Conti, Le Montrachet, Dom. Leroy, Dom. Leflaive
Rhone:
Pretty much anything that has Hermitage or Condrieu on the label
Alsace:
Zind Humbrecht, Keuntz Bas, Trimbach
Loire:
Cotat, Bourgeois, Marc Br?dif
Champagne:
Dom Perignon, Billecart-Salmon, Taittinger Comtes de Champagne, Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill... and oldvintages of Cristal (before they sold out when all the rappers started singing about it)
How many calories does a bottle of red wine contain?
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There are usually 635 calories in an average size bottle of average red wine. However, the amount of calories will vary according to the type and brand of red wine. For more in-depth information, see the related questions, listed under Related Questions.
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Can diabetics drink red wine?
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I'm sorry but I really think you should research your answer before putting it up here. If a diabetic with type 2 is going to drink alcohol at all - red wine is better and always with food NOT wine wine as you suggested here.
'It is best for diabetics to drink white wine and not red, because the red has more sugars in it than white wine. White wine also goes better with fish which is also good for diabetics to eat.'
Does red wine raise hemoglobin?
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no... it seems to reduce bad cholesterol (LDL) and it also causes a brief increase in heart rate and blood pressure, comparable to that experienced by 5 min of exercise, which may have health benefits. Reducing hemoglobin would not be a healthy or desirable effect of drinking red wine.
What is the boiling point of red wine?
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Red wine has many different parts to it, each chemical with different boiling points. The majority of the wine is water, which has a boiling point of 100 degrees centigrade. The alcohol or ethanol has a boiling point of 78.1 degrees centigrade. These are the main constituents of wine.
Would you get a buzz from drinking red wine vinegar?
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no. vinegars of all sorts do not contain alcohol. It is just normal red wine that was left to distill and ferment, a process that eliminates the sugars and alcohol from the liquid.
Does red wine build up your blood?
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Eating raisins will increase your iron level. Iron is found in your blood.
Could you use non alcoholic red wine in a recipe that calls for red wine?
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Yes im from australia and our local supermarkets sell them.
How do you remove red wine from johns carpet?
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The most popular home removal treatment for red wine stains is dishwashing soap and hydrogen peroxide. Rug or carpet cleaner can be substituted for the soap, if needed. The mixture should be mostly hydrogen peroxide, but recipe amounts vary among sources (about a teaspoon of soap to a cup of peroxide seems to be correct.) Dip a sponge in this mixture or spray the mixture onto the stain and use a damp sponge to lift. After the stain is completely removed, sponge with clear water and blot dry as much as possible. Allow to air dry completely before vacuuming.
The same mixture works as a laundry pre-treatment for clothing and will remove red wine from other fabrics (drapes, comforters, tablecloths, etc.)
Will resveratrol cause migraine headaches since red wine does?
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Speaking from personal experience, 80mg of Biovea reservatrol per day, split into 2x 40mg doses (one morning one evening) causes me a very bad migrane.
To get around this I tried splitting one 40mg tables into quarters, taking 10mg every 4 hours. I still get a migrane from it even at this dosage, so I guess I'm sensitive to it.
The headaches you get from red wine are mainly due to the alcohol in it: If consumed in excess, alcohol dehydrates your body and causes a hang-over; this is not the same as a migrane, as you will know if you suffer migranes.
It is possible that additives or preservatives in red wine are causing your migranes, or it could indeed be the reservatrol content... You won't know for certain unless you experiment for yourself.
Can sherry have the same benefits as red wine?
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Red wine versus white wine - is there a difference in health benefit?
by Dr Philp Norrie MBBS, MSc, MSocSc(Hons) Ever since Serge Reynaud's 'French Paradox' paper was published in The Lancetin 1991 wine consumers have had the mind set that only red wine is good for them. This article will show that it does not matter whether the wine is white or red as long as it is consumed in moderation and on a regular daily basis; then you will gain significant health benefits.
It has been well documented that consuming alcohol in moderation can reduce mortality from all causes by 30-50% (1) due, mainly, to reducing our society's biggest killer, cardiovascular disease by up to 50% (2) and cancer by up to 24% (3). It is also good for relieving society's other big disease group - stress related illness. Vascular disease occurs when bad cholesterol (LDL) is deposited in artery walls and swells up, eventually rupturing, causing a clot to form which blocks off the artery, and thus denying the tissue supplied by that artery of blood, hence it dies.
Alcohol, consumed in moderation reduces the bad cholesterol and raises the good cholesterol (HDL) level, plus acts as an anti-coagulant (blood clotting preventative). Good cholesterol clears away bad cholesterol from atheromatous plaques in artery walls and takes it back to the liver for re-metabolism.
Wine, in addition, contain substances called antioxidants which inhibit bad cholesterol from being incorporated in the artery wall. The antioxidants also reduce the damage caused by the body's free radicals (toxic waste products) which help cause degenerative diseases in the body such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and aging.The benchmark antioxidants are vitamins E and C, but wine in particular contains the strongest antioxidants in nature called resveratrol, quercitin and epicatechin which are five times stronger than vitamin E. Frankel (5) has shown that no matter how much vitamin E you take, its antioxidant activity plateaus at 20%, whereas wines' antioxidants will plateau at 100% after a couple of glasses. It should also be noted here that the fermentation process of converting grapes into wine enhances the antioxidant level many times over, plus produces alcohol, which helps the absorption of antioxidants. This explains why wine is far superior for your health than taking concentrates grape extract which has been advocated by some misguided people.
Returning to the 'French Paradox'. Reynaud observed that the French, despite eating a vascular disease-predisposing cholesterol rich diet, have significantly less coronary heart disease than other similarly indulgent countries. The reason for this, according to Reynaud is due largely to France's high consumption of wine. Professor Reynaud advocates red wine especially, but in fact his paper mentioned alcohol and wine, and did not specify red or white wine.
Dr. Frankel's research has shown that red wine contains more antioxidants than white wine, with the amount varying according to the grape variety, region, vintage climate (summer rainfall increases resveratrol production in grape skins as it protects against fungal infection), soil, storage in oak (oaked wines have more antioxidants than unoaked wines) and filtration techniques. Professor Skurray from The University of Western Sydney (5) has also shown that fining agents effect resveratrol levels. Polycar removed 92% of resveratrol, casein, egg white and alginate also 'stripped' some resveratrol, whereas gelatine removed relatively little.
The relevance of this to the average wine drinker is illustrated when one looks at studies which compare red wine and white wine consumption and mortality in practice, rather than in the laboratory.
There have been several studies which show that either are as beneficial. In 1995, Vinson and Hontz from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Scranton published a paper titled 'Phenol Antioxidant Index:comparative antioxidant effectiveness of red and white wines' (7) What this study showed was that even though red wines had a higher phenol content than white wines "The white wines had a significantly lower 1C50" (the concentration for 50% inhibition of low density lipoprotein or bad cholesterol) and thus were better antioxidants than contained in red wines. The take home message here is that it does not matter what the total antioxidant or phenol level is, but how effective the antioxidants are at doing their job -in this case inhibiting bad cholesterol.
Dr. Jung et al at the University of Mainz published a research paper in 1999 entitled 'Moderate red and white wine consumption and the risk of cardiovascular disease' (7). The paper's summary stated 'white and red wine improved the antioxidant capacity in the blood. The sum of the changes in cardiovascular protective blood values, the 'protective wine score' which includes all parameters, showed a clear improvement in both wine groups. The scores for moderate wine consumption were higher than for water, and white wine scored higher than red wine. Systolic blood pressure reduced significantly in the white wine group and the distolic blood pressure reduced in both wine groups'. This study shows that the effects of both red and white wines are comparable and in some parameters white wine delivered even better results than red wine.
Across the Atlantic in the US, The Jordan Heart Research Foundation found that free radicals were reduced by 15% in red wine drinkers and 34% by white wine drinkers, while red wine drinkers experienced a reduction in the blood's clotting ability of 10% and white wine drinkers 20%.
So why are the antioxidant molecules in white wine apparently more effective than those found in red wines even though they are present in greater numbers in red wines? The answer lies in the research of Dr. Troup, a physicist at Monash University in Melbourne. Dr. Troup used an electron spin resonance spectroscope to examine the actual size of the various antioxidant molecules in wine and showed that those in white wine are smaller and thus more effective because they can be more easily absorbed. A biochemical analogy would be to compare the smaller more effective immunoglobin IgG molecule which gets to all the bodies tissues to provide antibody coverage, whereas the larger immunoglobin IgM is restricted to the vascular system for its area of operation. In a letter to the Editor of the International Journal of Food Science and Technology titled 'Free Radical scavenging abilities of beverages' Troup et al pointed out that 'if the health promoting properties of wines are related to their superoxide-scavenging abilities, then white wine is at least as effective as red'.
Thus it can be seen that it does not matter which colour wine one drinks as each contain alcohol and enough antioxidants and once you get up to 100% antioxidant activity in your body tissue, anything extra is redundant anyway. Finally it should be emphasised that antioxidants such as resveratrol are not exclusive to wine but are found in dark ales, stout and cask aged whiskey too.
What does matter is that we are not side tracked from the important issue that drinking moderately and responsibly lengthens and enhances life, by which or what alcoholic beverage is better for you. Remember that all alcohol offers protective effect from coronary heart disease and total mortality.
References: (1) Gronbaek M 'Mortality associated with moderte intake of wine, beer and spirits BMJ Vol310May1995. (2) Simons L 'Alcohol intake and survival in the elderly: Dubbo Study: Aust.NZ Journal of Medicine. vol26 no5. (3) Reynaud S 'Alcohol and Mortality in middle aged men'; Epidemiology 1998, Vol9 no2. (4) Frankel E 'Red Wine Antioxidants and Potential health benefits' Address to the Society of Medical Friends of Wine. (5) Skurray G 'Wine Making Practice and Resveratrol in wine 1998. (6) VinsonJ and Hontz B Phenol Antioxidant index: Journal Agricultural Food Chemistry 1995,3. (7) Jung et al Herz/Kreisl,31 (1/99)pge 25-31.
