Sulphide free Red Wines

Curlew

Anyone suggest a range of good quality red wines that don't contain sulphides

Pawwed Rig

Moved to Beer & Wine & Spirits Forum. That charter now applies.

oblivious

I believe all wine contains sime concentration of sulphur dioxide, is weather there is any added by the wine make you might be interested in finding out

afatbollix

Organic wine should have the ingredients on the label.

Should make it easier to spot if it is in a bottle.

Slaphead07

Curlew wrote: »

Anyone suggest a range of good quality red wines that don't contain sulphides

If you think you might have a sensitivity to them try eating some dried fruit... it has 10 times the amount of sulphides that wine does! If you become flushed or your sinuses act up then you probably are sensitive to them.
Most wine will contain sulphides and it's not a problem. Because wine is required to say "contains sulphites" on the label people assume it's harmful. It isn't.

Being "organic" has little or nothing to do with sulphides and more to do with the way the wine is made. there's isn't any one definition of "organic" anyway and often organic producers don't bother putting their certification on the label (never mind ingredients!).

Wine without sulphides won't last so unless you like wine that's a few months old avoid it. There are chemicals that remove sulphides but that IMHO is worst that the harmless sulphides. Those products just prey on peoples fears.

By the way, those quarter bottles in pubs will almost always have 4 times the amount of a standard bottle of wine. They are almost almost industrial conveyor belt wines and the production line doesn't differentiate between bottle sizes. That level of over consumption will cause horrible hangovers plus the wine is pretty crappy anyway.

Just to dispel one more myth... white wine has more sulphides than red.

Curlew

Excellent post by Slaphead07

Marcusm

Without meaning to be pedantic, you are all talking about sulphiTes not sulphiDe. The additional oxygen atoms make all the difference.

Slaphead07

Marcusm wrote: »

Without meaning to be pedantic, you are all talking about sulphiTes not sulphiDe.....

You're quite right but the average wine drinker, the average layperson will use either spelling/pronunciation and indeed Americans will use an f rather than a ph but.... the purpose of the thread is not a lesson in chemistry or English. I simply kept the spelling the same in this context rather than add to confusion. Yes the correct compound is sulphites but in the circumstance you are being pedantic.

Marcusm

Slaphead07 wrote: »

You're quite right but the average wine drinker, the average layperson will use either spelling/pronunciation and indeed Americans will use an f rather than a ph but.... the purpose of the thread is not a lesson in chemistry or English. I simply kept the spelling the same in this context rather than add to confusion. Yes the correct compound is sulphites but in the circumstance you are being pedantic.

It's not an "f" v "ph" point nor an issue of spelling; sulphides and sulphites are about as similar as wine and soil. It's not a red v white or a wine v beer thing; they're simply completely different.