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What is the difference between wine and vinegar?

Are they chemically different?

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  • mark
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Different kinds of organisms at work. Vinegar is a result of “Acetobacter” converting sugars to acetic acid whereas wine is the result of yeast converting sugars to alcohol. In reality, the sugars are first converted to alcohol and the alcohol is then converted to acetic acid.

    One of the banes of a wine maker is when Acetobacter accidentally gets into the winery and turns the wine to vinegar.

    Wine can be converted to vinegar fairly easily. The most controlled way to do it is to purchase vinegar mother. You put the mother into the wine in a crock and let it sit for a few weeks.

    Source(s): I have made vinegar several times.
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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    Yes. Vinegar is made from some type of alcohol like vodka, wine, ale, etc. Each of these base ingredience gives the vinigar a diffrent flavor. Taste balsomic vinigar, which is also made from wine and compare the taste to white vinigar which is made from a white liquor like vodka and notice the diffrences in taste. Cooking wine is not a vinegar but is in fact a wine, typically white or red. Wine vinegar is the result when wine is used as the base for the vinegar that is made.

  • 5 years ago

    Wine And Vinegar

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The vinegar is vinegar, and the wine is wine. Cooking wine is generally some type of wine with salt added to it for cooking. The wine vinegar is vinegar made from wine. Do you get it now? It's kind of like asking what's the difference between juice and milk.

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  • Cister
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Vinegar:

    sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative

    dilute acetic acid.

    Wine:

    An alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of grape juice. Other fruit and vegetable juices, such as dandelion and elderberry are also occasionally used in winemaking, an art the goes back at least 12,000 year

    made from a variety of ingredients which is then fermented where the alcohol level is 12-18% naturally unless fortified

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wine- Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of grape juice.

    Vinegar- Vinegar is a liquid processed from the fermentation of ethanol in a process that yields its key ingredient, acetic acid.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Chemically and biologically different. Wine is made by yeasts producing ethyl alcohol. Vinegar is made by bacteria producing acetic acid.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Need more details

  • 5 years ago

    I think it depends

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