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Cooking wine or Cooking sherry usually refers to inexpensive grape wine (or rice wine in Chinese and other East Asian cuisine). It is intended for use as an ingredient in food rather than as a beverage. Cooking wine typically available in North America is treated with salt as a preservative and food colouring. In other countries sherry wine is used for cooking. There is a school of thought that advises against cooking with any wine one would find unacceptable to drink.

When a usual wine bottle is opened and the wine is exposed to oxygen, a fermentative process will transform the alcohol into acetic acid resulting in wine vinegar. This does not happen in fortified wines, as the alcohol content is too high. The salt in cooking wine inhibits the growth of the microorganisms that produce acetic acid. This will preserve a bottle of cooking wine, which may be opened and used occasionally over a long period of time.
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Cooking Wine
Any of a variety of different types of wine that are used to enhance the flavor of food dishes, such as meat, poultry, seafood, stew, vegetables, and sauces, while they are being cooked. Commerially processed wines are available in food stores as red, white or golden wines and are sold specifically for use in cooking.
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