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 ...

Fruit matters — the wines with real juiciness of fruit added more to the dish than wines that were more on the savoury spectrum. I didn’t try cooking with a faulty wine, so I can’t support ...

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%.