Is a Blush Wine too sweet to cook with?

BiotechChic asked:


I have a delicious blush wine made from Muscadine grapes that I bought at a local winery I visited recently. I bought a case and love to drink it but wanted to experiment with it as well. Is it ok to use a kind of sweet wine to cook with? I was thinking maybe a creamy garlic wine sauce with pasta??? Any other suggestions?

4 Comments For This Post

  1. TX2step Says:

    YES … it’s too sweet to cook with! …. maybe (a BIG maybe) you could use it in a dessert sauce, but that’s about it….. It’s basically a “party” wine

  2. druicy32 Says:

    I like sweet chicken (i use fruit when marinating chicken sometimes, maybe you could pan fry chicken with some wine, oil and soy sauce, serve over rice like chinese style?
    I would just probably stick to the drinking it though.

  3. evied125 Says:

    Dry white wines are much better. I’d stay away from cooking with Blush at all costs. It would probably be a big waste of food!

  4. David T Says:

    The mistake a lot of people make is thinking they can use liquor store wine to cook with. Those are designed for drinking, not cooking.

    I use cooking wine for cooking.

    My suggestion would be to experiment with it (since you have a case) and see if it is to your taste.

    Not everyone has taste for the same things.

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