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.

2 glasses of wine being held up and clinked - Yuliia Kokosha/Getty Images Just when you thought you had everything you really needed to know about wine figured out, like which bottle of Barolo to pair ...

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, ...

Every time I see "contains sulfites" on the back of a wine bottle, I pause. "Is this safe? What does that really mean?" I always ask myself before inevitably putting the bottle in my cart anyway.

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.

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