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Red Wine for Delivery or Pickup
The Instacart guide to red wine
Whether your taste buds lead you to lighter-body reds or rich, aged varietals, Instacart shoppers will do their best to deliver all your food and beverage needs in as little as 2 hours!
About red wine
Red wine has a long and storied history dating from the first evidence of its existence nearly 8,000 years ago. Red wine is made from crushing grapes with dark red or blue-black skins and allowing the juice to mingle with the skins, adding color and flavor to the wine. This process produces tannins, which are elements that give red wines their structure and texture. Different grapes lend different flavors and aromas, ranging from earthy and aromatic to fruity and sweet.
Types of red wine
With hundreds of varieties of red wine grapes, you could easily try new wines for years to come. Whether you're looking for a bottle for a special occasion or you're stocking your wine cellar, Instacart can deliver a wide range of tempting red wine options to your door with same-day delivery. Crowd-pleasing reds include:
- Cabernet Sauvignon: This popular grape is grown worldwide and is particularly popular stateside in the Napa Valley region. Depending on the terrain where it's grown, the flavor profiles can vary from rich and jammy to earthy and weedy.
- Gamay: The gamay grape is at the heart of France's Beaujolais wine region. Gamay is known for having light and fruity flavors of strawberry, cherry, and raspberry and is best enjoyed young. The annual fanfare around the release of each year's Beaujolais Nouveau wine celebrates that year's harvest.
- Merlot: Merlot wine has a place at many a dinner table, and for good reason: This accessible wine is agreeable as a companion to a wide variety of menus.
- Pinot Noir: This grape is notorious among growers as temperamental, demanding, and unpredictable. That said, when it's good, it's really good. This versatile grape is a principal component of Champagne and other varieties of sparkling wine, as well as exceedingly rich and jammy reds.
- Zinfandel: The Zinfandel grape made a name for itself as a mainstay of California wines but has expanded its domain to growers in Australia, Italy, and elsewhere. Bursting with flavor, Zinfandels can embody notes of jammy raspberry, bright plum, and ripe, sweet stone fruits.
Selecting red wines
While choosing wine is a very subjective undertaking, keep these basic considerations in mind as you make your decision. When selecting a wine, check out the product information pages on Instacart to get the details you need to make a great choice. These details include:
- Sweetness: Depending on your taste preference, red wines can range from very sweet to very dry. The bottle's label often provides clues about this spectrum and the wine's tasting profile.
- Body: Wines are characterized as having a light body, full-body, or somewhere in between. Red wines are generally considered full-body wines. Climate plays a role as well, with grapes grown in warmer climates producing full-body wines and wines grown in cooler regions being lighter-bodied.
- Alcohol: Wine's alcohol level varies and can range from a low as around 5% alcohol by volume (ABV) to as high as 20%. Most wines contain somewhere in the range of 11-13% ABV.
Red Wine Near Me
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FAQs about red wine
Tannin is a compound in wine that comes from the grape's skin, stem, and seeds, with red wines typically having a higher tannin content than white wines. Tannin can also come from wood, meaning oak-aged wines might have added tannins.
If you find yourself with leftover wine at the end of the evening, don't fret: You can save it for another day. Oxygen is wine's enemy, causing it to oxidize very quickly and giving it a vinegar taste. Find a container to store your wine that is almost to the overflow point so very little air can get in and stay trapped. Avoiding air bubbles and trapped air is critical to keeping red wine fresh.
Store the wine in the refrigerator for up to 7 days, and allow it to sit out to raise to temperature before drinking. If you have wine that has gone beyond its peak tastiness, use it for cooking to add a level of depth and richness to your meal.
The ideal temperature at which to enjoy red wine is 65°F. If your wine is warmer than this, immerse the bottle in a bucket or basin filled with ice cubes and water for about 5 minutes to bring it to your desired temperature. If possible, try to keep stored wines out of direct sunlight to prevent light from penetrating the glass bottle and affecting the taste and color profile.