Red Vs. White - What's the Difference?

While the main difference between these two types of wine is the color, there are actually many differences that go deeper than the color. At Seven Springs Winery, we feature thirteen different wines varying from dark red to light red and several shades of white. If you're looking for the best wine at the Lake of the Ozarks, you can't go wrong with any of our fantastic selections! Check out these delicious differences between red and white wine before you come out and sample them for yourself.

Taste the Tannins

There's a small difference in red and white, and that is known as tannins. Not only does this adjust the flavor of the wine, but also the color and characteristics. Red wine generally contains more tannins than white, which is what causes some of these difference.

Red Wine

You can get red wine, basically from fermenting grape juice. It will often contain the pieces of grapes and even their skin. Because of that, the tannins from the skin stems, and even seeds seep out into the wine which is what can cause the coloring.

White Wine

While you may have assumed that white wine is made from green grapes and red wine is made from red and black grapes, this isn't always the case. White wine is accomplished because the skins, seeds, and stems are not included in the pressing process, thus keeping fewer tannins in the white wine - making it white.

Is There A Difference In Alcohol Content?

In many cases, you will find that the alcohol content in red wine is higher than white. This is caused by the amount of sugar present in the in the wine during the fermentation process. More sugar equals
more alcohol. Generally, the grapes that make a red wine not only have a higher sugar content, but they are allowed to stay on the vine longer than white wine grapes - allowing for a riper grape.

Is There a Body Difference?

No, we're not talking about the way they affect YOUR body, just the body of the wine. You will find that red wines generally have more body, or mouthfeel, because they have higher levels of tannins, high alcohol content, and the process they are fermented is different.

Red Wine at Seven Springs Winery

Blushing SpringsSparkling red wine, sweet berry aromas with a semi-sweet finish.

Spring RedSemi-sweet red with a hint of black cherry and a velvet finish.

Syrah

Aromas of currant, blackberry, black pepper with a subtle vanilla oak finish.

NortonAn opaque deep plum color, tobacco, oak. Full bodied, spicy smooth persistent finish.

Sangria RojoA light, refreshing blend of sprite, orange juice, and Dry Rougeon wine

Seven’s Red HeavenBeautiful deep plum color with refreshing, Crisp fruit flavors & a distinct sweet finish.

Left SideA 2001 Vintage Norton blended with a 2008 fortified Norton.

White Wine at Seven Springs Winery

Dry VignolesAromas of Tangerine and oranges. Crisp vibrant acidity precedes a long and refreshing finish.

ChardonelLight to medium straw color. Medium body, fruity with toasted oak.

TraminetteLight straw with green hues. Light bodied, with a fruity yet off dry finish.

VignolesMid straw color with olive green tone. Flavorful bodied, peach, melon & citrus.

Spring FlingLight straw color with a lime green rim. Light bodied with fruity, citrus & lychee.

Muscato SparklingBrilliant, light straw, tropical fruit & flowers. Light bodied, fruit forward sparkling finish.

Best Winery at the Lake of the Ozarks

Are you looking for a good place to compare white wine and red? Our winery is the perfect place! You can come try three wines for free, or for a small fee you can try ALL of our wines and even get a special souvenir glass. Our winery is beautifully situated in the Ozark hills near the Lake of the Ozarks, and it's a perfect getaway whether you're on vacation, or you are a full-time Lake dweller. We hope to see you out here soon for a glass of your favorite vino.

Come for the wine...Stay for the atmosphere...Remember the view! 

Seven Springs is the finest Winery at the Lake of the Ozarks with a full-service facility perfect for outdoor weddings, receptions, rehearsal dinners, corporate events and parties.  Call us today to make reservations for your special event!

Seven Springs Winery

573.317.0100

846 Winery Hills Estates

Linn Creek, MO 65052

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Creative Ideas For Your Winery Wedding

Like wine - love gets better with age!

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There's nothing that makes our heart flutter more than a winery wedding. The atmosphere, beautiful bride, and obviously the wine, make for a dream come true! At Seven Springs Winery, we provide you not only with the best wedding venue at the Lake of the Ozarks but also a wonderful winery experience. Here are a few fun and festive ideas you can incorporate into your winery wedding!

Wine Cork Key Ring Favors

At some point, your guests will certainly need a key ring to keep things organized. What better way to do it than with a cork from your wedding! You can special order some with imprints like your names and wedding date, or you can save them up before the wedding - but you may have to drink a lot of wine beforehand to make that work. Oh, darn ...

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Wine Cork Holder Wall Decor

Of course, if you want to use your hard earned corks in a different way, you could try this piece of wall art! Have all of your guests sign a wine cork and then fill your customized shadow box with the memories. You can even add wine corks from fun events through your married years, like anniversaries, the birth of your babies, big accomplishments, and more!

Photo Credit: Wild Whim Photography & Design

Table Numbers with Wine Bottles

There are many unique ways to display wine bottles at your wedding, and this one is adorable. While we've seen plenty of table numbers displayed ON the bottle, this one incorporates the cork as well. Of course, you could also try making the wine bottle into a candle holder AND table number. The possibilities are endless when it comes to utilizing wine bottles and corks for your table decor!

Photo Credit: Nicola Thompson Photography

Creative Wedding Cakes

If there's one thing that goes well with wine, it's cheese! So why not opt for a unique wedding cake made from cheese? You can incorporate many different types of cheese stacked on top of each other - or you could also do actual cheesecake.

Have A Winery Wedding in Missouri

Seven Springs Winery provides an event coordinator who works with you closely in order to ensure your needs are met. Our facility holds up to 300 people inside and another 125 outside in our patio area. At night, the patio area lights up providing a remarkable, intimate atmosphere. In addition, our executive chef prepares a distinctive and delicious banquet menu with items ranging from hors d’ oeuvres to gourmet styled meals.

Seven Springs Winery and Vineyards sits upon a 160 breathtaking acres making a wonderful place for your celebration. The winery is less than a 10-minute drive from Camdenton and Osage Beach. Our facility also has a magnificent covered porch and a large patio area ideal for enjoying a glass of wine and admiring the beautiful view.

Come for the wine...Stay for the atmosphere...Remember the view! 

Seven Springs is the finest Winery at the Lake of the Ozarks with a full-service facility perfect for outdoor weddings, receptions, rehearsal dinners, corporate events and parties.  Call us today to make reservations for your special event!

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573.317.0100

846 Winery Hills Estates

Linn Creek, MO 65052

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Pizza Pie and Wine - Oh My!

If there's one type of day that requires hot pizza and chilled wine - it's a cloudy rainy fall day. At Seven Springs Winery, we know the advantage to sitting down to a delicious meal complete with an amazing wine paired with it - and it's even better when the meal is pizza. If you're curious as to which vino to pair with your pizza pie - here are a few of our opinions featuring the best Missouri wine!

Cheese Pizza & Spring Red

There's something basic and sublime in a cheese pizza. It has no pretensions but is still easily one of the most liked pizzas. A pizza like this needs something bold and equally loved to make the combo irresistible. We invite you to pair our Spring Red with your cheese pizza. Part of what makes the Spring Red so delicious is that it is a semi-sweet red with a hint of black cherry and a velvet finish. Combine these subtle - yet bold flavors with your cheesy goodness, and you'll see what we're talking about.

Pepperoni Pizza & Syrah

Did you know that pepperoni pizza is one of the most popular pizza flavors, and most liked? It simple, yet complex. We can appreciate the combination of fantastic flavors that are all rolled together. The tangy, red tomato sauce, melted cheese and robust pepperoni flavors are a combination that reminds us of years gone by and flavors of our childhood. You're not a child anymore, though, and you can now appreciate this pizza with sophistication and class that couldn't be achieved with bottles of pop. Try our Syrah red wine with your next pepperoni pizza. Aromas of currant, blackberry, black pepper with a subtle vanilla oak finish pair wonderfully with the classic pepperoni pizza.

Veggie Pizza & Chardonel

While veggie pizzas are typically associated with vegetarians or healthy eaters, there are some wonderful flavors combined into one exciting dish that can be appreciated by anyone. No matter what your reasoning for choosing this delicious combination of veggies, you'll want a wine that brings out each of the individual flavors. Cue the Chardonel wine. The light to medium straw color and medium body, fruity with toasted oak with combine perfectly with the delicious veggie pizza.

Meat Lover's Pizza & Norton

This hearty pizza has been assumed to be a "man's pizza" but that's certainly not the case. Combining all of your favorite meats onto one delicious crust with a flavorful tomato sauce and melted cheese is the perfect way to end a long work week or just a busy day. Pair this pizza with our bold Norton wine, and you'll be in for a delicious surprise. The opaque deep plum color combined with the tobacco, oak, and full bodied, spicy smooth persistent finish is going to perfectly complement the smokey goodness of any meat lover's pizza.

The Best Winery at the Lake of the Ozarks

At Seven Springs Winery, we know that good wine is made even better when paired with delicious food, great company, and beautiful scenery. At Seven Springs Winery, we combine all of the ingredients you need for an amazing afternoon, morning, or weekend pick-me-up, and we even top it off with live music on the patio. Come sit with us this weekend and enjoy a fabulous time - or at least come grab a bottle of wine to enjoy with your pizza and pajamas!

Come for the wine...Stay for the atmosphere...Remember the view! 

Seven Springs is the finest Winery at the Lake of the Ozarks with a full-service facility perfect for outdoor weddings, receptions, rehearsal dinners, corporate events and parties.  Call us today to make reservations for your special event!

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573.317.0100

846 Winery Hills Estates

Linn Creek, MO 65052

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25 Words Every Wino Should Know

Whether you need to know some wine terms to impress your boss or you just want to know them for further enlightenment, there's nothing wrong with having a few good wine words under your belt. From complex words that describe the making of wine to words that describe the taste of wine - there are many words that can be used. At Seven Springs Winery, we have plenty of varieties of wine for you to choose from, so if you're looking for somewhere to practice these 25 words, we know exactly where you should go!

Wine Bottle Lingo

Appellation
This will tell you where the grapes for the wine was grown.

Blend
If a winery takes two different grapes and makes one wine from them - this is a blend. At Seven Springs Winery, we have a blend called Left Side. It's a 2001 Vintage Norton blended with a 2008 fortified Norton.

Importer
This would be in reference to the person who brought the wine from another location. One thing to keep in mind is that they tend to have a specific taste, so if you like one wine from an importer, you may also like others.

Sulfites
This is a natural bi-product of wine fermentation. You will also not find more sulfites in red wine or white.

Varietal
While a variety might imply that there are several types of grapes, a varietal says that a wine is only made up of at least 75% of one grape.

Vintage
This only references the year that the grapes were grown and harvested - not necessarily the year the wine was produced and bottled.

Vintner
This is what the proprietor of a winery is called!

Wine Descriptor Lingo

Acid or Acidity
All grapes will contain some level of acid - thankfully because the acid is what preserves the wine. If a wine has a higher acidity level, it's generally a crisper wine.

Aroma
The aroma is something you will decide when you sniff the wine in your glass before taking a sip.

Balance
All of the elements that make up the flavor of the wine are combined together and called the balance. Those elements are alcohol, acidity, fruitiness, sweetness, and tannins.

Body
This doesn't actually refer to the quality of the wine, but the weight it holds in your mouth while you're drinking it.

Bouquet
A bouquet is a fragrance that is developed after the wine has been fermented and bottled. The bouquet of a wine can take years to develop.

Complex
Complexity can often be considered a good thing, and just as you love a complex story plot, there's something mysterious about a complex wine. The flavor, the tastes, and the very subtle nuances that you notice when you drink are what make a wine complex.

Finish

While this could be called the "aftertaste," phrasing it as the "finish" sounds much classier, don't you think?

Length
How long does the finish last in your mouth? This is what the length is describing, and it can be short or long, quick or lingering.

Mature
This describes a wine that is ready to drink. It has been aged appropriately and is ready to be enjoyed - now!

Texture
This is yet another word to describe the feeling you get when you let a good Missouri wine sit in your mouth. Full-bodied wines tend to have more texture, and as you try many different wines, you will find the texture you like.

Young
A young wine has generally been bottled and sold within a year. This is exactly how it's meant to be, and it's not generally as enjoyable if it's "aged."

Other Wine Lingo

Aeration or Breathing
When you let a wine "breathe" you are merely letting it sit out for a short while before drinking it. This can be done one glass at a time, or a whole bottle a time in a decanter.

Aging
Some wine is meant to be aged, while other wines are meant to be served while they are still young. If you have any doubts, you can ask the "vintner" when you visit our Lake of the Ozarks winery!

Case
In the United States, a case of wine is generally twelve 750 ml bottles.

Corked
Uncorked is good, corked is not good. When a wine is corked, it generally means that the cork, and thusly the wine, has been tainted. This can happen sometimes be caused by bad environments like a moldy basement.

Oxidation
An oxidized wine is one that has been left out in the air for too long. It can affect the color and the taste of the wine.

Sediment
Older wines with more tannins tend to have a sediment that either settles at the bottom or side of the bottle depending on how it was stored. You will generally find this in darker red wines because they have more tannins and color pigments to settle.

Tannins
Tannins are a natural ingredient from the skin of a grape. The higher the tannins, the drier the wine tends to be.

The Best Wine at the Lake of the Ozarks

Do you feel prepared to take on a conversation with a wine connoisseur yet? No matter how many wine words you have stocked in your mental dictionary, we are certain that you can enjoy our wine with or without them. We have been located at the Lake of the Ozarks for over seven years, and we look forward to continuing to provide the best wine at the Lake of the Ozarks! Come out and sit on the patio with us, enjoy a few glasses, and make a lot of memories.

Come for the wine...Stay for the atmosphere...Remember the view! 

Seven Springs is the finest Winery at the Lake of the Ozarks with a full-service facility perfect for outdoor weddings, receptions, rehearsal dinners, corporate events and parties.  Call us today to make reservations for your special event!

Seven Springs Winery

573.317.0100

846 Winery Hills Estates

Linn Creek, MO 65052

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