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What has less sugar wine or whiskey?

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Gin, rum, whiskey and vodka don't contain any added sugar. Beer doesn't have added sugar either. A 1.5-ounce shot of creme de menthe contains a whopping 21 grams of sugar. A 5-ounce glass of red or white wine contains about 1 gram of sugar, which comes from the grapes rather than from added sugar. read more

In addition, sugar is not the only carbohydrate present in the wine, on average wine has 10-30 grams/liter dry extract, or 3 grams per 5 oz. glass. Therefore, even with twice the carb grams of dry Champagne, a 5 oz. serving is under 100 calories. read more

Red table wines have less than 1 gram of sugar per serving. White table wines have slightly more with 1.5 grams of sugar per serving. Red and white wines have a carbohydrate content of about 4 grams per serving. Because there are numerous varieties of wine, the sugar content can vary widely. read more

Basically, when winemaking happens, yeast eats sugar and makes ethanol (alcohol) as a by-product. A dry wine is when the yeast eats all the sugars and a sweet wine is when the yeast is stopped (usually by chilling the fermentation) before it eats all the sugars. This is why some sweet wines have less alcohol that dry wines. read more

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