Sacramental Wine? white or red?

[colliric]

I am wondering, what color of wine should(or must) be used in communion? I’m confused because I’ve had a look on Australia’s Jesuit Winery list of wines and I see there are also white wines listed as “Sacremental, for religious puposes”. Blood is colored a purplish red when oxygenated, just like purple grape juice which is the same color. To me Jesus clearly used red wine because it literally looks like blood, and therefore already had one element in relation to blood. But why do winerys list whites as Sacramental? Is there some other use of wine in the liturgy I dont know about?

the winery is www.sevenhillcellars.com.au

 

[decn2b]

I am wondering, what color of wine should(or must) be used in communion? I’m confused because I’ve had a look on Australia’s Jesuit Winery list of wines and I see there are also white wines listed as “Sacremental, for religious puposes”. Blood is colored a purplish red when oxygenated, just like purple grape juice which is the same color. To me Jesus clearly used red wine because it literally looks like blood, and therefore already had one element in relation to blood. But why do winerys list whites as Sacramental? Is there some other use of wine in the liturgy I dont know about?

the winery is www.sevenhillcellars.com.au

Sacramental WIne can be white or red. THe color of the grape has no bearing on the the end result of transubstatiation. The only reason wine should be red is the fact that the communicant can better relate to its sacrificial nature by the sign of red, however since the cup being used is supposed to be made of noble metal it is a non issue becuase one really cannot see the color of the wine anyway.

I guess we could also make the remark that if the bread should be the red like flesh too. There are different types of wheat with different types of color pigmentation. There is no mention of what type of wheat should be used for the Host. SImilar is the matter of grapes. If I am not mistaken there are variations of wheat of which the end result of making the unleavened bread could result in a darker, more flesh colored host.

 

[Morning_Star15]

A priest once told me that he and other priests he knows prefer to use white wine because it doesn’t stain the altar linens as much as red wine does. While there are some specific properties for Sacramental wine, colour is not one of them, so it comes down to a matter of preference.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Can. 924 §1 The most holy Sacrifice of the Eucharist must be celebrated in bread, and in wine to which a small quantity of water is to be added.
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§3 The wine must be natural, made from grapes of the vine, and not corrupt.

As you can see, color is not legislated, so any color is legitimate.

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Who has known priests to claim (jokingly) that they prefer white, so that a Eucharistic Miracle would be immediately evident.

 

[batteddy]

Local churches in the middle ages even mandated WHITE wine, to combat eucharistic heresies (in a similar way to how the people recieved only the host in order to teach them that each species contains the whole Christ and so either is sufficient for communion). People seeing the red wine apparently began to think that the wine turned into blood in its accidents and appearences too. To teach that only the substance, not the accidents, changed, the Church began to use white wine so there would be no confusion. White is actually MORE traditional in this sense.