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Is a Blush Wine too sweet to cook with?

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?

Public Comments

1. 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. 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. 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. 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.