{"id":30731,"date":"2019-01-30T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/what-does-wine-color-reveal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:04:45","slug":"what-does-wine-color-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/what-does-wine-color-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"What does wine color reveal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today,\nvarious grape varieties are cultivated from which different types of wine are made. <\/p>\n\n<p>Based on the wine&#8217;s\ncolor alone, some basic characteristics can be identified, such as\nage, quality, grape variety, and so on. Wine color varies from light\nand dark shades of yellow, through golden tones and hues, all the way to the color of red\ngranite and golden-brown tones. <\/p>\n\n<p>Read more about the\nmeanings of individual wine colors below.<\/p>\n\n<p>Straw color: Wine\nwith a straw color indicates a fresh, young wine with a light body. It is ideal for\nconsumption within the first two years. <\/p>\n\n<p>Yellow color: Most\nwhite wines fall into this category, characterized by \nmoderate maturity and a medium body. <\/p>\n\n<p>Golden color: Exceptional\nmaturity of wines with fruity flavors. Since such wines have aged with\noak, they have a lower acidity content. <\/p>\n\n<p>Brown color: Brown\ntones in wine indicate that it is an older wine. However, it is often\na wine produced using dried fruit. Additionally, these can also be\ndessert wines. It is important to note that white wines lose their brilliance after long storage,\nwhich is a clear indicator of oxidation.   <\/p>\n\n<p>Ruby color:\nRuby-colored wines are young, light-bodied wines with a lower tannin content.<\/p>\n\n<p>Red\ngranite color: An intensely dark wine color indicates the wine&#8217;s fullness and guarantees a complex\naroma and taste. Such a wine has a long aging period, which\ncontributes to the perfection of its flavor.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, various grape varieties are cultivated from which different types of wine are made. Based on the wine&#8217;s color alone,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30735,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30731\/revisions\/30735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}