Keto wines

#1

Specifically which wines are keto friendly? Which wines are not? Thank you

#2

Wine is not really Keto friendly, it all contains sugar. Probably Sauterne would have the least sugar - just guessing.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #3

I don’t drink, but I hear that hard liquor has fewer carbs than wine.

#4

I have been known to spike my sparkling water with Vodka. :zipper_mouth_face:

(Shannon) #5

Prosecco has the fewest carbs, it’s 1g of carb per 5 oz serving.

#6

Thank you. Do you prefer a particular brand?

#7

All wine easily fits my keto but for normal people it’s the non-sweet ones.
My old fav wine had 20% sugar… A dry wine has a negligible amount of carbs from my viewpoint but it’s true for calories too as I drink so little. Actually, we can’t drink a bottle of wine unless it’s sugary enough to last for months but it’s my personal problem. I just can’t drink wine, the bottles are too huge. I only drink it around Christmas when I am in the mood for a lot of spiced wine. We manage a whole bottle somehow that time.

I usually drink Cabernet Savignon if I drink wine. It always worked for me but I am very far from a connoisseur :slight_smile:

(Rossi Luo) #8

As I know, distilled alcohol is the only safe choice for Keto.

(KM) #9

Dry wines are typically less than 1 carb per ounce. So a typical 5 oz pour of a dry (sour) wine in a restaurant will come in somewhere between 4 and 5 carbs. Not a keto disaster, but definitely noticeable on a 20 carb limit. The issues I see are that wines are often sweeter than this, especially the more inexpensive and house wines, and those of us drinking wine at home rarely stick to 5 oz.

#10

Can you name some dry wines?

#11

My usual Cabernet Savignon is dry, Pinot Noir is nice too (and I find it so intense I need even smaller amounts of it, it’s one reason I never can buy it. my SO doesn’t even drink it so no way we could finish a bottle or just half of it).
Alas, I can’t buy wine shots. So I usually stick to hard liquor, mostly vodka and rum, in richer times whisky. A bottle lasts for years even if I drink some whenever the thought crosses my mind…

(Bob M) #12

This is an area where I wish we’d have labeling. Nothing is marked with carbs.

Since I drink so little wine, I don’t worry about the carbs. At most, we’ll open a bottle and drink the bottle (2 glasses each) in one night, maybe every few weeks or months. And sometimes we’ll have one glass each and keep the other two glasses for the next day.

Also, you have to balance the carbs versus the fact that alcohol can lower blood sugar. Here’s an interesting n=1 study done by a statistician, where there’s a slight beneficial effect in morning blood glucose values when drinking red wine (or other liquor) the night before.

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https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01109.x

Personally, I like to make a “White Russian”, but with this:

https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01109.x

Takes too long to make it, though. (White Russian = 1:1:1 ratio of this chocolate, vodka, and cream).

(Shannon) #13

I like Bread & Butter, La Marca, Cielo, and there’s one I found at a gas station called Relax Prosecco that is only like $9. But, they ran out and now it’s hard to find.

#14

Yeah I miss that too sometimes. Not so much if it’s wine, I just use some generic “dry red wine” data* but if it’s a beer, I am totally lost. Not a problem as I drink beer even more rarely as before but I can imagine someone would like the info…

*I was glad when I could find the sugar content of my white wine online. As it was still a very sweet wine, it was kind of important though the sweeter a wine is, the less I am able to drink so things get balanced out. Still, I do like to know things if I already bother with tracking.

Sounds nice. I like using vodka in sweet stuff as it’s so neutral. But sometimes rum works better as it has flavors fit for sweets… I personally go for egg liquor as yolks make everything better… :wink:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #15

By stimulating insulin secretion, don’t you think?

And for what it’s worth, when I joined the forums in 2017, everyone was advising against drinking wine at all, and sticking to spirits.

(Bob M) #16

That, I don’t know. I’d guess you’re correct, but I haven’t looked into the mechanism.

#17

I was thinking a half glass of wine any wine sweet or not 4 oz would be ok. But you are discouraging me here

#18

I switched from wine to vodka in sparkling water with dinner. It wasn’t hard. I add a squirt of lemon juice, but it’s not necessary, I just find it refreshing.

(Bob M) #19

Personally, I don’t think it’s a problem. But I have a looser idea of what’s a problem or not.

(Joey) #20

This is a highly personal thing …

Many folks don’t drink alcohol at all, which is likely better for long term health - undoubtedly for those who have had prior struggles with control.

However, there seems to be enough evidence (of varied scientific quality) that (dry) red wine in moderation has protective qualities of some sort.

Then of course on a purely “carb count” basis distilled clear spirits have lower carbs per alcohol content than even the driest of red wines.

Then again, if you consider alcohol as the 4th “macro” nutrient, it gets metabolized before all others (fat, carbs, protein) and so can certainly mess with your nutrient absorption depending on timing and amount.

To recap: YMMV.

(FWIW, in our home, we go for dry wine with dinner, dry martinis, tequilla, white russians, coffee/mocha with vodka, scotch, … you get the idea.)