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Do you know grippy tannins when you taste them?

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When it comes to table wine, [5 oz. is considered a standard pour](https://www.rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov/How-much-is-too-much/What-counts-as-a-drink/Whats-A-Standard-Drink.aspx).

What amount is considered a single serving of wine?

The average table wine has about [123 calories per serving](https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/4183?count=&ds=&fgcd=&format=&lfacet=&manu=&max=50&offset=&order=asc&qlookup=table+wine&sort=default).

And about how many calories are in a standard glass of table wine?

Most table wines are about [12% ABV](https://www.rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov/How-much-is-too-much/What-counts-as-a-drink/Whats-A-Standard-Drink.aspx).

The amount of actual alcohol in a given serving of an alcoholic beverage is called alcohol by volume, or ABV. What is wine's ABV?

The AHA [does not officially recommend drinking wine](http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/HealthyEating/Nutrition/Alcohol-and-Heart-Health_UCM_305173_Article.jsp#.WDRy5aIrJp8) for its potential health benefits. Instead, it advises improving cardiovascular health through exercise, lowering blood pressure, and managing your weight.

The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends drinking at least one glass of wine per day for heart health.

As BuzzFeed Health has [reported, there are lots general factors that determine just how bad your hangover will be](https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolinekee/sorry-but-there-is-no-magic-cure). When it comes to wine, red wine hangovers seem to be worse than white wine hangovers due to the presence of congeners — chemicals that appear in alcohol during fermentation. They tend to appear in higher amounts in darker alcoholic drinks like brown liquor, dark beers, and red wine, and [they seem to make hangovers worse](http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hangovers/expert-answers/hangover-prevention/faq-20057969).

What might make your wine hangover worse?

According to the Wine Market Council, [millenials drank 42% of all the wine consumed in the US in 2015](http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2016/02/millennials-now-drinking-half-of-all-wine-in-the-us/). Millennials also make up 36% of all US wine drinkers.

What's the largest wine-drinking demographic in the US?

According to Wine Spectator, [serving full-bodied reds at 60–65 degrees (just below room temperature but warmer than a wine cellar) de-emphasizes the wine's bitter flavors](http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/how-to-serve-wine-temperature).

What's the ideal temperature for serving red wine?

[Port is a sweet dessert wine that's made by adding brandy midway through the grape fermentation process.](http://winefolly.com/tutorial/making-port-wine/) This brings the alcohol content up to a minimum of 17.5% ABV, though some ports are up to 20% ABV.

When making port (sweet dessert wine), what is added to the fermenting tanks to stop the fermenting process and increase the alcohol level of the final product?

_Wine Spectator_ says that the word ["awkward"](http://www.winespectator.com/glossary/index/word/A) describes a wine that has "poor structure, is clumsy or is out of balance."

If you sipped a wine and its flavor was out of balance, what wine word would you use to describe it?

[Most table wines are about 12% ABV while most ports are about 20% ABV](http://winefolly.com/tutorial/alcohol-content-in-wine/). All things being equal, port would get you drunker BUT a serving of table wine is 5 oz. while a serving of dessert wine is 3 oz. In the standard serving size amount, table wine and port would give you the same amount of alcohol.

Which wine will get you drunker?

Dry red wine has about four grams of carbs per 5-oz. serving. A standard bottle of wine is 750ml or ~25 oz. So, five 5-oz. glasses of wine have about 20g. of carbs, or about the same as a [small banana](https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2159?ds=&fgcd=&manu=) (which has about 23g of carbs).

One bottle of dry red table wine has about as many carbs as:

In a 2015 wine industry survey [83% of respondents said they drink wine because they like the taste](https://www.winebusiness.com/news/?dataid=160722&go=getArticle).

An overwhelming majority of Americans say they drink wine because \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

A 2013 UK [study](http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/33675/1/ARS-2012-5142-Corona_1P%20notes%20v2.pdf) found that the rats who drank champagne had improved spatial working memory, aka ["the ability to keep spatial information active in working memory over a short period of time."](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16300806)

A 2013 study found that rats who drank 1.3 glasses of champagne per week had improved what?

[Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen's recipe for "heart wine" used to treat maladies of the heart](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013142/#CR11). And the recipe is still in use today.

In the 12th century, wine cooked with parsley stems, vinegar, and honey was used to treat \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Wine with carbon dioxide (aka bubbles) seems to make you get drunk quicker and more severely than degassed wine, according to a [small study from 2003](http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/4/381.full).

Which of the following is likely to get you drunk the quickest?

A 2009 Italian [study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19627470) found there was an association between moderate daily red wine intake and higher Female Sexual Function Index scores for sexual desire, lubrication, and overall sexual function.

What might drinking 1–2 glasses of red wine per day do?

Tannins are polyphenols, chemicals produced by plants, which, when present in wine make it dry and astringent by [clinging to the saliva proteins that make our mouths feel slippery](http://www.winemag.com/2012/02/15/the-truth-about-tannins/).

How do tannins affect wine?

So, you may be able to tell the difference between white and red but that's more or less where your wine knowledge ends. Who says you have to "get" wine to drink it, though? Not us!

You're a wine rookie

So, you know a thing or two about wine, like how to read a wine menu (kinda), and you even have a decent palate for what you're tasting. We'd let you order for the table!

You're an amateur wine enthusiast

Wow, OK, so you know wine. Like you really know it. You've probably used words like "angular" or "bright" to describe wines, and actually known wtf you were talking about when you did it. Pretty intimidating but also pretty rad!

You're a sommelier, basically

Finally, what's your favorite wine?

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