How Many Calories Does Your Glass of Wine has?

Stepping into a grocery store, we would always look out for low calorie food but is that what we do while choosing our wines as well? Probably not. In Fact, even the label of your might not tell you about the calories. It has never been a big matter of concern for most people but if you love to open a bottle of your favourite red wine quite often, then it is important for you to check for calories.

From where does a wine gets calories? There are mainly two sources of calories in red wines- sugar and alcohol. So even if you are consuming a dry wine doesn't makes it free from calories. Surprisingly, it is the alcohol which counts for more calories (7 per gram) than the residual sugar (4 per gram). Putting it in a simpler way, dry wines with less alcohol will have less calories, and a sweet wine🍷 with high alcohol will have a lot of it. Since we know that residual sugar adds low calories, a sweet and low-alcohol wine will always be better than a dry and high-alcohol wine.
Let's have a look on the amount of calories in red wines of Australia. The red wines may range from very light to full bodied. Said that, a it is generally medium or full bodied. The below chart would help you identify the alcohol and calories in red wines of Australia.

ABV%	Calories- Dry Wine (Serving= 150 ml)	Calories- Sweet Wine (Serv
12	91	125
13	103	133
14	111	141
15	119	149

 The sweet wines are measured at residual sugar of 150 g/L which is equal to around 2-3 tsp sugar. While many research might show the benefits of red wines but it is good to be consumed in a limited amount, i.e., 1 or 2 servings a day.