When reading the mention \"contains sulfites\" on wine bottle labels, more and more customers are intrigued and somewhat alarmed. Is it dangerous for health? Is this the reason why I sometimes have a headache when I drink wine? <\/p>\n\n
In winemaking, sulfites are used to protect the wine from oxidation and to preserve it. Sulfites are therefore essential in the production and preservation process of wine. <\/p>\n\n
If you cut an apple in half, contact with the air will very quickly give it a brownish color and its taste will be significantly altered. If you cut that same apple with a knife coated in sulfites, your apple will not suffer from oxidation and its flavor will remain fresh and pleasant. The same applies to wine. <\/p>\n\n
The mention \"contains sulfites\" has been mandatory on wine bottle labels in Switzerland since 2008. Producers of sulfur-free wine do not escape this requirement, but most of the time it is misleading because one often reads \"does not contain sulfites\" or \"sulfur-free.\" This is incorrect and misleads the consumer. It should read \"no added sulfur\" because wine naturally contains sulfur<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n Sulfur is a natural product found in nature<\/strong>. Our bodies also produce sulfites (in 24 hours, it produces enough sulfites to stabilize 100 bottles of wine!). Most of the foods we consume contain sulfites in the form of sulfur amino acids found in the proteins of meat, fish, seafood, and egg yolks. Garlic, chives, leeks, cabbage, hazelnuts, and certain mineral waters also contain sulfur. Dried fruits generally contain ten times more sulfur than wine. <\/p>\n\n There have always been sulfites in wine. In the past, sulfur wicks were notably used to disinfect wood and prevent the oxidation of wine in barrels, a method that is still in use today for wooden containers. <\/p>\n\n In medical terms, sulfites are not considered to cause allergies but rather a food intolerance, similar to lactose, for example. Headaches often result from excessive alcohol consumption.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n As in the past, sulfites remain to this day the best preservative for wine<\/strong>. Today, regulations regarding dosage are very strict. The sulfite content in wines has been significantly reduced over the last thirty years thanks to modern oenology, which is committed to preserving the authenticity of its wines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When reading the mention “contains sulfites” on wine bottle labels, more and more customers are intrigued and somewhat alarmed. Is it dangerous for health? Is this the reason why I sometimes have a headache when I drink wine? In winemaking, sulfites are used to protect the wine from oxidation and to preserve it. Sulfites are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-vine-to-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rouvinez.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}