Few topics in the wine industry fuel as much controversy as sulfites. These compounds are blamed for everything from flushed cheeks to morning-after headaches and plenty of alleged issues in between.

The phrase "contains sulfites" is printed on many if not most bottles of wine, typically somewhere on the back label. The words admittedly read like a warning label, which is inherently off-putting.

All wine has sulfites. There, I said it! This myth about “sulfite free,” or “free of sulfites” in wine is just that, a myth. Before you start screaming blasphemy and telling me all the reasons I’m ...

Interest in more naturally made wines—whether they’re organic, biodynamic, or brandish neither certification—is growing alongside a general consumer shift towards foods that contain fewer artificial, ...

Sulfites are commonly used to increase the shelf-life of wine (ncluding sulfur dioxide and sodium metabisulfite.) To an extent, sulfites occur naturally in all wines. They are, in mass produced wines, ...

This is the time of year when people tell me, as they return from their European vacations, that they drank bottle after bottle of wine with their meals and “never got a headache.” They explain this ...