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i am a huge wine lover my favorite ever day wine is pino grigio and i my favorit red wine is merlot which wine has more calories ?
Answer From Expert Roger Bohmrich MW

The same volume of dry white and dry red table wine contains a roughly equivalent number of calories: a 6-ounce serving of either one has around 120 to 130 calories. The calories are derived from carbohydrates, not fat.

The same serving of a sweet dessert wine will easily contain more than double the calories of a dry wine, or even more depending upon the residual sugar content of the wine.


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Roger has enjoyed a lengthy career in the wine trade as an importer and retailer, and at present he is an educator, speaker and consultant. He set up and managed Millesima USA, a New York merchant affiliated with a leading European company. Previously, he served as senior executive of importers Frederick Wildman & Sons. In recent years, Roger has judged wine competitions in Argentina, Turkey, Portugal, China and the U.S. Roger is one of America's first Masters of Wine.

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