Bellissima Zero Sugar Sparkling Wine

(Michelle ) #1

Has anyone else tried this? My husband bought a bottle for us to try after Christmas. I really liked it and was excited to see it had no added sugar and was organic. I am unsure if the nutritional facts I found (0 carbs, 92 cal per 5 oz glass) are correct. I usually like a backup source to the MyFitnessPal website. Anyone else ever research or try this brand?

(Karen) #2

Interesting. I haven’t, but might be a help for those who enjoy the comradery of a glass in hand at a gathering

(*Rusty* Instagram: @Rustyk61) #3

And that’s the nice thing about wine.

#4

What do you mean, @rustyk61?

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #5

Dry Farms Wines are good low carb/low sugar wines as well

Isn’t Bellissima the wine company that Christie Brinkley is heavily involved with now?

(Michelle ) #6

Yes it is.

Here is what is on the website, that I should have posted above but forgot:
Classification: Sparkling white wine
Grapes: 100% Glera
Province and Region: Treviso-Veneto
Soil: Stony field
Growing technique: Sylvoz
Harvest: August – September
Fermentation temperature: 60.8° - 66.4° F with natural selected yeasts
Vinification technique: In steel thermo-conditioned tanks
First fermentation period: About 10 days
Second fermentation and maturation period: 7 months in autoclave
Alcohol content: 11.50% alc/vol
Residual sugar: 0-2 gr/litre
Total acidity: 6-7 gr/litre

(*Rusty* Instagram: @Rustyk61) #7

Wine = zero to low carb in most cases, except for the dessert type wines. Always pays to check before you purchase.

#8

If it’s made from grapes, not sure how it could be zero carb, but I’m definitely going to check this out!

(Andrew) #9

There’s 3-4g of carbs in a glass of wine. All the sugar becomes alcohol but there is still some carbs left the yeast couldn’t digest.

Distillation removes everything but the alcohols hence why some people like whiskey etc.

(Richard Hanson) #10

Hi Michelle,

Any dry wine has almost no sugar or carbs as all of the sucrose, glucose and fructose in the must are metabolized by yeast and converted into alcohol as long as the fermentation is allowed to continue until completed. This is a decision of the winemaker, but there are great many wonderful wines in the world that have very little sugar. There are other sugars found in wine, 3, 4, 5 and 7 carbon sugars, such as the five-carbon sugars arabinose, xylose, and rhamnose, which do not ferment, but they are found in very low concentrations. And there are stiles of wine that have high residual sugar content.

Added sugar is not meaningful if the sugar that is added, a process call chaptalization, is also fermented into alcohol. This is not a common practice in the U.S. but has been done in places like France for a very long time.

I was not aware that there was any standard for “organic” wine and lets not even start to talk about biodynamics approaches to viticulture. That is more a discussion of religion than of science.

I think what you have found is a product that is intended to be marketed in a specific way to a segment of the population, but there is no reason at all not to enjoy a very wide range of quality wines from all over the world. There are even bone dry white wines that are quite delightful that are keto compatible but that bottle of Sauternes, or the old Tawny Port, or that incredible Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling are all verboten.

Any decent wine merchant can point you to a very diverse range of appropriate choices if you just explain that you are looking for wines with low residual sugar.

Keto for Life,

À votre santé,
Richard