I am not a wine taster, so let me just say, this smells like wine and almost tastes like wine too. I think of it as sophisticated grape juice. I enjoy this with beef or spicy sausage. If you are going to judge this like a wine snob would, then forget it. I am drinking this regularly for the health benefits and enjoying it at the same time. It has half the calories of regular wine or grape juice at 20 grams of carbs for an eight ounce glass.