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What’s the difference between cooking wine and drinking wine?

I feel really stupid for asking this question, but I’m a new wine drinker. Does the bottle always specify when a wine is solely for cooking? Is the alcohol content different? Not planning on drinking cooking wine, obviously, I’m just curious.

I’m a chef and I don’t know of cooking wine with salt in it.
I know of spirits with salt and pepper for cooking, this has to do with taxes.

Most chefs use cheaper or young wines in cooking, because complexity of flavour of a nice wine is lost in the cooking process. Some non-expensive Italian wines are bottled in large 1.5 litre bottles and used mostly in cooking. These could be called cooking wines, but a person with an unsophisticated pallet could still find them drinkable.

Still there is much to be said about using a good wine in cooking the dish and drinking it with the end product. The harmony of flavour will be better. The cost on the other hand will be much greater.

Good question….