5 red wines you should be chilling, according to a sommelier

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Red wine can be enjoyed chilled too.

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With summer almost coming to a close, enjoy the last hot days with a glass of chilled red wine.

White wines are almost always sipped on chilled, but only certain kinds of reds fair well in cooler temperatures.

James Tidwell, Master Sommelier at the Four Seasons Resort in Dallas, Texas, shared with us some of the best types of red wine that taste great chilled.

"I would say the wines to look at in general are typically wines that have more acidity to them and wines that don't have a lot of oak influence on them," said Tidwell.

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Although these qualities are the defining characteristics of a chillable red wine, the description might be hard to decipher. Here are the five types Tidwell recommends.