Posts by xtrabobaplz

i hope i dont offend anyone, but that seems kind of crazy! one glass of wine isnt that many calories and i cant imagine a wine that is engineered to be diet would be nearly close to anything a real glass of is. you can fool yourself with some foods, but wine and chocolate are two things that should be enjoyed in their full on glorious flavor! mmm wine and chocolate....

i think it would be better for weight loss to drink delicious wine!

heres from a review of this wine:

"Looking at the website, it's unclear if they are removing natural sugars in the fermentation process and replacing them with a sugar-free product or just adding the sugar substitute to make the wines more palatable to sugar addicted Americans. We're not talking chaptalization here (adding sugar to grapes before or during fermentation if they don't fully ripen enough to produce alcohol on their own, a procedure used in parts of France and Germany), but rather sweetening wine with an organic no-calorie product that "has no side effects because it cannot be metabolized by the human body!"

Clearly the target market - just look at the name and label - is diet-conscious women (with suggestions for diabetics - we'd like to hear a doctor's opinion on that). But since when is wine a diet product? Especially with fairly normal alcohol levels around 12% (although today on the lower end for wine). Isn't alcohol consumption supposed to be bad for your dieting resolve? At any rate, while the sweetener is supposed to have no calories, carbs or fat - the wine still has calories from alcohol, etc. So don't go running to the wine store looking for a calorie free-wine."

i think the main thing is that they are using grapes that are not fully sweetened or ripened in the first place, so they have to add sugar (which is not done to real wine), but because they didnt want to add sugar (and no one normally does, so i dont understand why they are marketing it that way...) they added fake sugar. but the calorie content of wine depends mostly ont he alochohol content i believe.