(VinePair) - Thinking about calories while drinking wine can be a major buzzkill. Wine is meant to be savored and enjoyed. But considering the 120 to 130 calories in a standard 5-ounce glass of wine makes that savoring just a little less sweet.

But it doesn’t have to be that way if you’re prone to counting calories. There are low-calorie wines — both naturally low-calorie and specifically produced to have lower calories — that keep you from having to think as deeply about how much you’re drinking. The best part of it all is that those low- calorie wines are just like most other wines. There are just a couple minor changes in production.

NATURALLY LOW-CALORIE WINES

Naturally low-calorie wines will be dry, low-alcohol wines hovering around 10 percent alcohol by volume. Cooler winemaking regions usually produce lower-alcohol (therefore lower-calorie) wine because the grapes don’t produce as much sugar. Less sugar for yeast to ferment means less alcohol in the wine. Each gram of alcohol has seven calories, and your standard 5-ounce glass of 12 percent alcohol by volume wine has around 14 grams of pure alcohol.