White Wine in the Babylonian Talmud

It is taught: A bucket in which there is white wine or milk, and one immersed, it one follows the majority.

Rabbi Yehudah says: "One views it as though it is red wine: If its appearance would pale, it is fit; and if not, it is unfit."

It was taught: Sumakhos said from Rabbi Meir's name: "One does not feed him (the Kohen Gadol) Alef, beit, yod; and some say not Alef, beit, beit, yod."

And some say: "Not even white wine."

Not alef, beit, yod means neither etrog, nor eggs [beitzim], nor old wine [yayin]."

And some say: "Not alef, beit, beit, yod means neither etrog, nor eggs [beitzim], nor fatty meat [basar], nor old wine [yayin]."

And some say: "Nor white wine because white wine brings a man to the impurity."

Rav Kahana, father-in-law of Rav Mesharshiyya, asked Rava: With regard to using white wine for libations and for the sanctification of the Shabbat day, what is the halakha? He said to him in response that the verse states: “Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it glides down smoothly” (Proverbs 23:31), which indicates that red wine is considered to be of a superior quality.