Diet Wine Review

There is a new weight conscious product on the market making big waves. We have already seen some success with low carb beer but now there is a new contender in town. We now have diet wine, sure to catch the interest of wine lovers who are keeping an eye on their calorie intake.

What is Diet Wine? Does Diet Wine have less alcohol?

Diet wine has a lower calorie content then regular wine for the same volume. How it works is quite simple. The calories of a wine come from the alcohol content. Lower the alcohol content of a wine and you lower the amount of kilojoules/calories.

If you don’t mind the alcohol content of your wine reduced and are happy with the taste then this diet wine will be a perfectly good way of enjoying your wine and keeping the calories low in the process.

Types of Diet Wine available

A number of producers have been quick to jump into the market with diet wines.

Weight Watchers has already teamed up with McWilliam’s to promote a lighter range of wines.  They state that the “McWilliam’s Balance” has 8.5% alcohol content, making it 1/3 lower in both alcohol content AND kilojoules. Weight Watchers values the addition of diet wines to the Weight Watchers program as another way of ensuring that dieters can count their calories (or when it comes to Weight Watchers, counting points) without being deprived of all the things they enjoy. In this case, a glass of wine.

Dr Red has released the “Dr Purple wine” that has purple carrots added during the wine making process.  This results in a dark purple wine with the aroma and taste of Australian Shiraz grapes and rich in the powerful antioxidants polyacetylenes and anthocyanins found in purple carrots.

How does it taste?

People harp on about the difference between the taste of diet soft drinks as opposed to the original and this is certainly going to be the same question posed here.  How does the taste of diet wine compare to the original?

Depends on you. This is very subject thing, particularly in the case of wine, depending very much on an individual’s tastes and their ability to distinguish between different types of wine to begin with.

If you are discerning with your wine there are wine connoisseurs who already claim that there is a very distinct difference between the diet wine and original. Whether they like or care about the difference is another question. Those less avid wine drinks may be very happy or less concerned by the taste of diet and have more of an appreciation of its low calorie properties.

At the end of the day, it’s nice to know that you can search around for a bottle of diet wine that suits your taste, just as you would a regular bottle of wine.

Other health benefits of Diet Wine

Our main focus of diet wines has been the lower calorie content compared to regular wine. But we should not dismiss the other health benefits associated with this new generation of wine. As well as being rich with antioxidants like regular wine, the lower alcohol content of diet wine means less burden on our liver, nervous system and body in general (assuming you don’t go drinking 40% more of it). This in turn reduces the risk of developing the associated diseases and conditions with alcohol. That’s worth toasting to.

Where can I buy Diet Wine?

You should already start to see diet wines available on the shelves of many bottle shops and the range of diet wines to choose from is sure to extend as producers see the increase in demand for this simple but effective concept.