Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tektools.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!daemon!tektools!jerryp From: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek) Newsgroups: net.wines Subject: Re: wineache Message-ID: <123@tektools.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 13:35:31 EST Article-I.D.: tektools.123 Posted: Mon Feb 11 13:35:31 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 07:43:10 EST References: <1043@tekgvs.UUCP> Reply-To: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 39 Summary: In article <1043@tekgvs.UUCP> jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs) writes: > > I would like to discuss an > attribute of wine not often discussed in the wine media: headache generation. > ... there are specific wines that generate headaches for me. Generally > they are very low-cost reds and cheap or Charmat-process sparkling wines. I've noticed the same thing. I can drink a glass or two of cheap wines (red *or* white) and get quite a headache, but drinking better wines doesn't bother me. I've heard -- several places, including tours of wineries -- that chemicals and preservatives are what makes the headaches. One winery employee (Amity Vineyards, Oregon) had a couple of interesting points: - People who buy cheap jug wines at the supermarket won't drink the whole bottle in a night. They expect to open the bottle again next week or next month, and not have vinegar. Big wineries know this, and add preservatives to their jug wines. If they didn't, uninformed consumers (used to Wonder Bread that stays "fresh" for a week, etc.) would assume it was a bad brand of wine and buy someone else's. - He talked about a jug wine -- full of preservatives -- that they (or someone) froze, then boiled, then compared to the stuff straight from the bottle in a blind tasting. The tasters couldn't tell the difference! If preservatives really *are* used in wine, I'd like to see that mentioned on the label. It shouldn't hurt business on the cheap wines -- bread manufacturers list all that garbage on their labels, and people who don't care still buy the bread. It might make winemakers think twice before adding preservatives, too. --Jerry Peek, Tektronix, Inc. US Mail: MS 76-036, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077 uucp: {allegra,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,ucbvax}!tektronix!tektools!jerryp CS,ARPAnet: jerryp%tektools@tektronix.csnet Phone: 503/627-1603