Does not necessarily mean red wine, red wine is a general term for wine. There are many classification of red wine. In the finished color, can be divided into red wine, white wine and pink wine three categories. One red and can be subdivided into dry red wine, half dry red wine, half sweet red wine and sweet red wine, white wine is subdivided into dry white wine, dry white wine, half sweet white wine and sweet white wine.

Red wine or red wine is red wine, grapes, between about 1000 to 1000 b.c. In the south of France, and then it begins to reproduce in most parts of the Mediterranean basin. At the dawn of wine, the drink has been visual cognition is a kind of can only enjoy the noble aristocratic drinks, is also a kind of used to worship god wine buck the sacrifices of god.

Red wine in the heart of christians around the world also represents the blood of Jesus Christ, that promoted the wine's populist, make ordinary people also have the right to drink sweet wine. (see the Eucharist)

Red wine and dry red

The so-called dry type (dry white wine, dry red) only refers to the amount of sugar content in wine, and no other meaning. In accordance with the provisions of the standard dry wine sugar under 4.0 g/L. Due to this type of wine low sugar content, not sweet, so more indicators of grape fruit, fermentation to produce wine flavour and aging. In the traditional sense of the wine is a sweet wine, sugar content is above 50.0 g/L.

Dry red wine of "dry" is to borrow the champagne brewing a word, that don't add any additives such as water, spices, alcohol, directly with pure juice brewing wine. After red grape juice, not filter grape skins, grape juice have drunk again filtering, brewing process, the color of the grape skins, dissolves in the wine for dry red wine. There are two kinds of dry red wine, is a kind of simple filtering; Another will continue to press filter residue. Squeeze the dry red wine of tannins, tastes more thick. That is, dry red tastes are not sweet. In China, when someone drink red like to drink, mixed Sprite this shows drinkers actually is not suitable for drinking, but the orthodox wine.