weight loss/gain & wine

[Innkeeper]

Hi Blushlover, and welcome to the Wine Board. You can loose weight on a low carb diet and have your wine. My darling wife lost over 100 lbs on a low carb diet while drinking a glass or two of wine every night.

The kicker is it was dry wine. They more residual sugar in wine, the more carbs. It's as simple as that. If you are trying to keep it around 20 carbs a day (grams of carbohydrates) most white zin will get you there quickly. Try dry whites like Sancerre, Dry Vouvray, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, and riesling, pinot blanc, and gewurtztraminer from Alsace.

Reds to try are Bardolino, Volpolicella, Beaujolais and Cru Beaujolais, and barberas from Italy and California.