but it's not a realistic example of cooking with wine, since other ingredients will have a big effect on how things taste. I needed to do some real cooking. To test the effect of a wine's flavor ...

"Real wine has natural flavor and aromas," he ... so long as you avoid cooking wine -- and all the additives that accompany ...

stay away from the flavored Marsala wines and the cheap cooking wines in favor of DOC producers of quality wine. Only then can you taste the past, and rapidly returning glory, of real Marsala.

How do you avoid taking wine too seriously? Join the conversation below. The real wine world, by contrast, hasn’t been so much fun lately. Winemakers whose sales are down—their tasting rooms ...

This Japanese cooking wine adds its tangy-sweet flavor to braises ... but it will lack the depth of flavor of the real stuff. Aji-mirin usually has a lower alcohol content of around 8%.