Wine’s Alcohol Levels Explained
By Jack Chapman

It's wine education week! Whilst wine does contain alcohol, every wine - be it red or white, still or sparkling - is the unique product of an individual recipe and set of processes. Just like the grape content, the alcohol levels vary from wine to wine. Speaking to senior portfolio manager at Cult Wines, Jack Chapman, he explains how alcohol content is created, measured and may vary.

He notes ''Alcohol levels in wine take you straight back to high school plant biology. The canopy density (literally number of leaves) on a vine act to photosynthesise sunlight into sugars, which are then pushed into these grapes. It isn't just important for getting you merry, it also adds to the body of the wine creating a glycerol, rounded feeling whilst acting as a preservative (higher alcohol wines general age for longer too!). Ultimately, it is up to the skill of the winemaker to mask its flavour. A talented wine maker will be able to disguise this whilst using it to augment the wine's body, so a wine with high alcohol might give you that warming feeling instead. Some high alcohol wines will be so well made, you won't even taste it!'

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