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February 9, 2019

Dry Farm Wines Review for Keto Diet – Sugar Free, Healthy Wines

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This review for Dry Farm Wines, a curated and lab-tested wine club, will explain why their wine is not only compatible with, but better for keto and low carb lifestyles than conventional wine. They sell low sugar wine, which also happens to be delicious! We also made a video, unboxing the wines and testing ketones and blood glucose to show that you can drink their wine and stay in ketosis.

Fun experiment! We’ll also talk about why healthy wine is important. I’ve continued to enjoy Dry Farm Wines for years now and have updated this guide for 2021.

One of the most popular questions those new to the keto diet ask is whether they can have alcohol on keto. Many also ask the specific questions “is wine keto-friendly” or is “red wine keto-friendly?” While the short answer is yes, the type of alcohol or wine you should have really depends on your goals. Fortunately, there is an easy way you can ensure your wine is compatible with keto.

First let’s assume that you’ve already decided alcohol in moderation is something that works for your health goals. There are a lot of studies, opinions and conversation about whether drinking alcohol is optimal for health, but the bottom line is it’s a personal choice. Reasons you may or may not choose to imbibe and how it impacts health is a much bigger discussion for another time.

Dry Farm Wines Review for Keto Diet

Is Wine Keto Friendly?

Wine starts out as a grape, which of course has a ton of sugar! Luckily yeast loves to eat sugar and as a by-product, produces alcohol and CO2.

The lowest sugar wines are from Dry Farm Wines. All of their wines are tested to have under one gram of sugar per liter.

The residual amount of sugar left in other wine varies. Sparkling wine, cava and champagne are typically the lowest in sugar coming in at one to three grams of carbohydrates per five ounces. Next are dry white wines such as sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio and chardonnay at around three grams per serving and sweeter wines such as riesling coming it at five grams per serving or more. The lowest sugar red wine is pinot noir and cabernet at around three to four carbs per serving. Zinfindel can go up to nearly fiver per serving.

The residual amount of sugar left in wine varies. Sparkling wine, cava and champagne are typically the lowest in sugar coming in at one to three grams of carbohydrates per five ounces. Next are dry white wines such as sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio and chardonnay at around three grams per serving and sweeter wines such as riesling coming it at five grams per serving or more. The lowest sugar red wine is pinot noir and cabernet at around three to four carbs per serving. Zinfindel can go up to nearly fiver per serving.

Based on carb counts, you can definitely drink wine and stay within your keto diet carb allowance. However, some wines are better for keto and your health than others.

Depending on how many carbs you personally can have and remain in ketosis, you could fit in a few glasses of many wines or one glass of others depending on which you chose. However, there are still calories to consider. And, when you consume alcohol, as a poison, your liver switches pretty quickly away from fat burning and begins the process of metabolizing the alcohol instead. Since there are byproducts of alcohol metabolization that can be used for energy, the body will use those for fuel, slowing down fat metabolism.

Are Dry Farm Wines Keto-Friendly

Dry Farm Wines are especially keto-friendly! They’re tested to be less than one gram of sugar in the entire bottle. I’ve tested my ketones multiple times after drinking Dry Warm Wines (you can see my video below) and I’ve always stayed in ketosis.

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Your weight loss goals and other health factors should guide how often you choose to drink alcohol and allow this slowed fat burning process to take place.

Why Dry Farm Wines Are Better than Conventional Wine for Keto and Is There Such Thing as Sugar-Free Wine?

Dry Farm Wines winemakers in a vineyard.One of the best things about Dry Farm Wines, is that they independently test each wine they sell to be bascially sugar-free. While most wine is lower sugar at two to six carbs per five ounces serving as described above, Dry Farm Wines are tested to be under one gram of sugar per liter! That means an entire bottle has less than one gram of sugar so you can enjoy a couple of glasses entirely guilt and sugar-free. It’s by far the best low sugar wine I’ve had.

If you drank three glasses of a typical sauvignon blanc (one of the lowest sugar wines) you’re at around 10-12 grams of carbohydrate, almost half of what you would consume each day on the keto diet. If you drank the same amount of wine from Dry Farms, you’re consuming under one gram of sugar. Total. Super low sugar.

Dry Farm Wines are so low in carbs because they are fully fermented. The yeast eat all of the sugar then they die off leaving alcohol. Carbs are introduced by some winemakers by adding additional sugar back in after fermentation to appeal to the American palate. Some kill the yeast early allowing sugar to remain. Dry Farm Wines makers do neither of these things.

The less sugar in any product you choose, such as Dry Farm Wines, the better it is for the keto diet and your health in general.

How Much Alcohol is in Dry Farm Wines?

The alcohol in each bottle of Dry Farm Wines is independently tested. Alcohol content listed in other wines can actually vary by several percent.  Dry Farm Wines tests the wine from each vintner to ensure the percentage listed on the label is accurate. Since the wines are dry-farmed, the alcohol content is generally slightly lower than conventional wine. Most of them come in between 11 and 14 percent. Low sugar wines tend to be naturally lower in alcohol as well.

What Ingredients Are in Wine and How do They Affect the Keto Diet and Ketosis?

As someone who loves to cook and eat, wine is a big part of enjoying food. There is nothing better than enjoying a nice glass of red wine as you prepare a gourmet red sauce and then sitting down experience how the flavor of your wine enhances the meal! And as someone involved in the lifelong pursuit of Ultimate Wellness I’ve always been concerned about what I put in my body.

This is one of the reasons I really wanted to write a review for using Dry Farm Wines on the keto diet. It gave me a chance to explore what’s in low sugar wine and why it may or may not be compatible with keto.

Of course, since alcohol is technically a poison, one could argue you shouldn’t have it at all. However, the same goes for so many things we consume that aren’t so good for us like donuts, cookies, etc. Moderation is key and thankfully a healthy liver is designed to process toxins.

Photo of a Dry Farm Wines VineyardThe point of this discussion though, is we know that ethanol (a certain type of toxin) is in wine, but what else is in there? It must be regulated, and labeled like the rest of our food, right? Wrong.

In 1976 the court case Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. Matthews 1, the decision was the FDA did not have the jurisdiction to require labeling of alcohol since it’s not technically a food. Over the years, the alcohol industry has consistently objected to being required to put ingredients on the label.

According to Todd White, founder of Dry Farm Wines, there are 76 additives allowed in wines in the US, including some pretty nasty chemicals. He also says that the top 52 percent of all the wines manufactured in the United States are made by three giant conglomerates. It would be hard to mass produce wines without at least some more modern techniques, including additives, but that doesn’t mean they’re good for you.

How Does Alcohol Affect Ketosis?

The two ingredients in wine that we know for sure affect ketosis are sugar and alcohol. There may be other negative effects from some of the additives, but since there is no ingredient label, we don’t even know which wines contain what additives and/or chemicals. You also won’t know by the label which wines are low sugar.

Too many carbohydrates will take you out of ketosis.  Sugar affects ketosis by taking you out of it for however long it takes your body to burn through the excess carbohydrates and start producing ketones again. If you stick to sugar-free or very low sugar alcohol, the sugar itself should have little to no effect on ketosis.

There are a few differing opinions on what effect the processing of alcohol (outside of whatever sugar it contains) has on ketosis. Some say the liver processing alcohol temporarily slows ketosis. Others say drinking may actually increase ketosis. A small study showed increased ketones compared to a control group when drinking alcohol. 2 Depleted liver glycogen on a keto diet changes liver metabolism.

However, it makes the most sense that when drinking alcohol, your liver will be using the byproducts of metabolized alcohol instead of fat. Probably not much of an issue if you only drink occasionally, but if you drink often, it may mean you’re taking your body out of fat-burning mode.

Again, your goals can lead you as to what choices you make regarding alcohol consumption. Most definitely if you’re doing to drink wine though, there is no question that low sugar wine is best if you want to stay in ketosis.

N=1 Experiment, Effect of Drinking Dry Farm Wines on Ketosis

And now for the fun part! I drank wine (taking one for team keto here) and tested blood sugar and ketones with the Keto-Mojo to see what happened after drinking Dry Farm Wines. The results may surprise you. The good news is you can drink wine on keto, especially if you choose Dry Farms.

Nothing but water was consumed in the four hours prior to testing. For this review of how Dry Farm Wines affects ketosis, it was important that baseline measurements would be unaffected by prior consumption.

Right before drinking the wine, ketones and glucose were tested. Ketones measured at 2.8 and blood sugar was 79 according to the Keto Mojo. Two servings (10 ounces) of wine were measured with a scale for accuracy then consumed within 30 minutes. A wine was chosen that sounded interesting from the latest Dry Farm Wines shipment…a lovely white Gamay blanc de noirs from Domaine Franck Besson in Jullie, France. It was delicious.

An additional 30 minutes passed before testing blood levels again to give the wine time to take effect. An hour after starting to drink the wine and 30 minutes after it ended, ketones were at 3.3 and glucose was at 73.

Certainly some of this difference can be accounted for by the accuracy of the monitor, but clearly, neither ketones nor glucose were negatively affected by Dry Farms Wine. In fact, ketones went up and glucose went down. Crazy!

Other Things Dry Farm Wines Tests Besides Sugar and Why Healthy Wine is Important

We know that Dry Farm Wines tests for sugar. Obviously, this is awesome for a keto or low carb lifestyle, but that is not the only consideration for a healthier wine. So what other tests does Dry Farm Wines perform?

Turns out, quite a few! Every wine they sell is also less than 75ppm of sulfites, 12.5 percent or less alcohol, “low alcohol”, fungus and mold-free, no additives, dry-farmed, old vine, hand-harvested, wild native yeast, small production, gluten-free and naturally or biodynamically farmed. Pretty amazing considering how many of these tests most US wines would violate.

Why each of these tests is important would take up quite a bit of space to explain. However, it’s obvious to most people concerned about their health that the more natural a product is, the better it is for you.

Are Sulfites in Wine Bad?

The sulfite explanation alone would be quite long. I wasn’t able to find any evidence that sulfites are a major health concern although antidotally, many people think they contribute to a red wine headache. All wines have some natural level of sulfites. For this Dry Farm Wines review for keto, the main difference to note here is that winemakers focused on naturally produced wine generally don’t ADD sulfites, a common practice in the US.

Wine and Irrigation

One of the most interesting things learned in this process was about dry farming. Think about this. For all the hundreds of years wines were produced in Europe, there was no irrigation!  And this is better for the grapes.

Irrigation is actually FORBIDDEN in Europe. It’s better for the environment not to water, but what else? Grapes that are irrigated have more sugar because it’s easy for them to soak up water and produce more sugar as a result. More sugar means more alcohol and diluted flavor. Not a good thing for wine.

Vines that aren’t irrigated have to grow deep roots to search for water and the flavor is affected in a good way. Flavor is more concentrated.

Napa winemakers irrigate despite receiving more natural rainfall, even in drought than some of the best winemaking regions in the world such as Bordeaux and Tuscany (based on US 30 year averages from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and European 30 year averages from the World Meteorological Organization).

Is Dry Farm Wines Sold in Stores?

Dry Farm Wines are only available through dryfarmwines.com. However, the shipments are highly customizable, easily paused or put on a different shipping schedule and if you find a wine you love, Dry Farm wines can ship more of a specific wine to you.

Should You Buy Dry Farm Wines?

Of course, this is a personal decision based on your budget and goals. Unlike some other wine clubs, they allow you to easily change the delivery frequency online with up to six months in between shipments. It’s also fun that they do special collections for holidays and seasons such as Rosé for summer, sparkling for New Year’s and reds for Valentine’s Day. It’s interesting to try new wines that typically have a very small or no US distribution.

For healthy wine tested for all of these things, I personally feel it’s worth it. I had a lot of fun testing out their wine for this Dry Farm Wines review for my keto lovers! I know these wines are infinitely better for me based on the lower sugar, alcohol and additive/chemical content but also healthier due to the other things for which they test. If you choose to drink wine in moderation as part of your healthy lifestyle, I highly recommend Dry Farm Wines. If you purchase through our link, you will receive an extra bottle of wine for just a penny!

We would love to hear what you think about Dry Farm Wines if you try them! Hopefully, you found this review of Dry Farm Wines for keto helpful. If you’d like to learn more about any of the topics discussed in this article, the Dry Farm Wines website is a great resource.

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  1. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/435/5/1424822/ 
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5456793
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I'm Cheryl McColgan, founder of Heal Nourish Grow. I've been into health, wellness and fitness in some form my whole adult life. You can see all my background at the site on my "about" page.

As a New Year's resolution in January 2016, I started going lower-carb and in January 2017 went to keto. The benefits I have experienced are amazing! Reduced anxiety and depression and weight loss plus it's the easiest way of eating I've ever done...definitely easier than the 7 years I was vegetarian.  And my brain feels 1000% better than all the years of low-fat!

Seventeen months ago I added in exogenous ketones and found an amazing community. 

People always wonder why you might drink them if you're already in ketosis...all I can say is that they have taken my brain function to another level!  Plus you can use them if you don't eat keto. I tested out about 8 different brands and did tons of research before deciding to use them.  There is a LOT of crap out there.

Since much of my work is writing and focus, I notice the biggest impact on how my brain functions day to day. They suppress my appetite and my body composition is continuing to change.

You don't need supplements or anything extra to be successful with keto...well except electrolytes...critical. HOWEVER!!! If you are looking to optimize function and take your experience to the next level, why wouldn't you use tools that help?

It's a no brainer. Day to day life and weight loss is hard enough. If you're lucky enough to find tools that work, whatever that is for you, use them!

If you could use some help getting back on track, let me be your accoutabilibuddy. Helping people look and feel better is my passion!

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Staring down 2021 like... ⁣ ⁣ 🤣 we got this Staring down 2021 like... ⁣
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🤣 we got this!⁣
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Big plans, big goals, big dreams. Even if 2020 got you not wanting to make resolutions, at least set an intention for your year and write it down...it can be a powerful motivator.⁣
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If you did set any resolutions or goals, I'd love to hear about them in the comments below! ⁣
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Every year about this time, people start looking i Every year about this time, people start looking into keto! That's when I found it...5 years ago I started low carb and 4 years ago I went keto and never looked back.

If you've been around here for a while you already know my passion is helping people get healthier and keto is such a great tool to do that!

Go to HealNourishGrow.com to check out my Complete Beginner's Guide to Keto or to sign up for my Getting Started with Keto webinar. Both are great resources whether you're a total newbie at this or a seasoned vet.

Happy New Year to all and please let me know how I can help you reach your health and wellness goals in 2021! Don't give up...we can still get where we want to be despite all the craziness. 

Every day is a new opportunity to start again. xoxo, Cheryl

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So many people this time of year start thinking ab So many people this time of year start thinking about resolutions like getting healthier, losing weight or getting back on track with their eating after the holidays. ⁣
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I know that's been the case for me in the past! I went lower carb in January 2016 and then keto in January 2017 and have never looked back! January will mark my 5th year of being committed to a new way of eating and I've learned a lot along the way.⁣
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To kick off the new year, I want to share my experience and help kick of our 2021 with better habits! Today at 2PM ET I'm hosting a live webinar about how to get started with keto. ⁣
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Live is awesome so you can ask all the questions! Experienced ketoers are welcome too if you just want to hear a different perspective or some new ideas. if you can't attend live, register and you'll get the recording. ⁣
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webinar.healnourishgrow.com
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Great to just learn more about why this way of eating is so much healthier for you, even if you don't want to fully commit yet :)⁣
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Since then, I've spent literally hundreds of hours writing about, researching and listening to interviews about nutrition, low carb and keto.⁣
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Can't wait to see you there!⁣
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This is one of my favorite dishes when I'm looking This is one of my favorite dishes when I'm looking for something super quick and easy.⁣
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If you keep frozen shrimp, dried parsley, frozen zoodles and butter on hand, you'll never be without a fabulous meal! Bonus points for keeping lemons or lemon juice on hand for this too :)⁣
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We had this as a holiday appetizer but I've made it plenty of times with zoodles as well. ⁣
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Blessed to have such amazing holiday food this yea Blessed to have such amazing holiday food this year!

This ham was definitely in the top five holiday meals and I typically don't even like ham. My favorite was the smoked ribeye roast on Christmas though. 

What was your favorite holiday meal so far?

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No matter what your religion, color, political par No matter what your religion, color, political party, gender association or other differences, wishing you the best and most peaceful holiday season. 

One of my very wise teachers always said peace in your home, peace in the world. Peace has to start somewhere, even in the smallest way!

We could all use more peace on earth, no? How are you celebrating the holidays?

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Shhhh...don't tell Peter 🤣🍣🤣⁣ ⁣ Could Shhhh...don't tell Peter 🤣🍣🤣⁣
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Could it be more me?!? Long time foodie, lower carb then keto almost 5 years now.⁣
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I'll just be over here trying to stay sane, health I'll just be over here trying to stay sane, healthy and keep aging in reverse. Or at least fight it all the way 😆⁣
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Happy transformation Tuesday friends!⁣
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Mexican night is always one of my favs! We had the Mexican night is always one of my favs! We had these yummy fajitas last night. They were paired with my simple keto margarita.⁣
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Rather than using my @cutdacarb wraps as a tortilla to put the fajitas in, I prefer to make them into chips for extra crunch.⁣
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Just cut them into strips then triangles then pan fry them in your oil of choice. They're super quick, only about five seconds per side!⁣
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Ribeye, medium rare is my favorite! What's yours? Ribeye, medium rare is my favorite! What's yours? 👇

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This is pretty much what people think we eat on ke This is pretty much what people think we eat on keto isn't it? Bacon can definitely be part of your keto diet, and it's delicious of course...but variety is nice too. ⁣
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When we're weekend brunching, sometimes I keep it this simple or sometimes I get fancy with my perfect French style omelettes, breakfast casseroles, low carb pancakes or remaking a leftover into breakfast. ⁣
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The one thing that's constant is that I start my day with keto kreme...it's absolutely delicious, so healthy and can help you extend the time to your first meal. We didn't eat until 1 today! Message me if you'd like to try it, I have several options for trail packs. Today I was feeling extra so I went in for another cup of coffee and kreme.⁣
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