How Many Calories Are in a Glass of Wine?

A standard 125ml glass of supermarket wine holds somewhere between 90 and 160 calories. The spread depends on strength and sweetness, and it's wider than almost anyone expects.

Scale that to the bottle and a mainstream red or white lands at 600 to 700 calories. If wine is a regular part of your week, which bottle you reach for matters more than how many glasses you pour.

Calories by glass size

Serving	Light wine (9 to 11%)	Standard wine (13%)
Small glass (125ml)	65 to 80 kcal	~114 kcal
Standard glass (175ml)	91 to 112 kcal	~159 kcal
Large glass (250ml)	130 to 160 kcal	~227 kcal
Bottle (750ml)	390 to 480 kcal	~667 kcal

The gap across a bottle is close to 280 calories. That's a meal's worth of difference between two bottles that look identical on a shelf.

Where the calories come from

Two things, and one dominates.

Alcohol is 7 calories per gram, not far short of pure fat. It's the single biggest driver, and it's why ABV is the most useful number on any wine label.

Residual sugar, the grape sugar left behind when fermentation stops, is 4 calories per gram.

Dry wine contains no fat and negligible protein, so between them those two account for essentially the whole figure. A wine at 9% and bone dry lands near 65 calories a glass. A wine at 13.5% with sweetness left in clears 110 comfortably.

Calories in wine by style

Style	Supermarket average (125ml)	Our range
Sparkling and Prosecco	80 to 100 kcal	from 77 kcal
Rosé	89 to 110 kcal	from 65 kcal
White	95 to 120 kcal	from 76 kcal
Red	100 to 125 kcal	from 76 kcal
Full bottle	600 to 700 kcal	from 390 kcal

Which colour is lowest?

Roughly: sparkling, then rosé, then white, then red. But that ranking is far less useful than it looks, because the spread inside each colour is much wider than the gap between them.

A light Provence-style rosé at 9% and a fuller Australian rosé at 13% are both rosé, and there are 24 calories a glass between them. Meanwhile the lightest reds we stock match the lightest whites exactly. Colour is a weak signal. Strength is a strong one.

Sparkling sits at the bottom for a specific reason: the base wines are picked early to keep acidity high, which means less sugar going in and lower alcohol coming out. Look for Brut or Brut Nature and you're at the driest, lightest end.

The rosé trap

Rosé deserves a warning of its own, because it has a reputation for being the light option and frequently isn't.

A lot of commercial pink is made off-dry, carrying 5 to 9g of residual sugar per glass without the label ever using the word sweet. There's no legal requirement to declare it. That's how a wine most people think of as summery and light ends up above a dry red.

The fix is straightforward. A properly dry rosé at moderate strength is genuinely one of the lightest things you can drink. An off-dry one at 13% is not.

Our lightest, by colour

Every wine below is full strength. Nothing is dealcoholised or watered down.

Colour	Wine	ABV	Per 125ml
Rosé	Plume Grenache Rosé	9%	65 kcal
Rosé	Conscious Rosé	10.5%	72 kcal
Red	El Ninot de Paper Grenache Shiraz	11%	76 kcal
White	Ancora Pinot Grigio IGT	11%	76 kcal
White	Mirabello Pinot Grigio DOC	11%	76 kcal
Sparkling	Tapas Wine Collection Cava Brut Nature	11%	77 kcal
White	TRACES Sauvignon Blanc	11%	78 kcal
Rosé	TRACES Rosé	11%	78 kcal
Sparkling	TRACES Prosecco	11%	78 kcal

At 65 calories a glass, the Plume works out around 390 for the bottle. A mainstream 13% white is closer to 667. That's a difference of about 275 calories per bottle, or most of a light lunch, for a wine at full strength.

Go deeper by colour

Calories in red wine: the full breakdown by grape, and why Malbec runs higher than Pinot Noir
Calories in white wine: why dry doesn't automatically mean light, and where Chardonnay really sits

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