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3700. wonkers2 - 3/28/2006 1:32:30 AM Yes, but red wine usually gives me a headache. White does not. 3701. arkymalarky - 3/28/2006 4:03:24 AM I like merlot, and I love the beaujolais Judith mentioned and she and Keoni are the reason I know it's so great! I don't like chardonnay. But I know zip about wine. If I like the taste and a couple of glasses don't make me feel icky, it's good.
Red wine can cause headaches. Sometimes I get them with red wine and sometimes not, but I read somewhere that the precursor to a migraine may actually be a craving for red wine rather than being caused by it, and I think that's at least sometimes true, at least for me. 3702. thoughtful - 3/28/2006 2:52:11 PM the headaches from red wine have 2 causes...histimines and nitrites. White wines also have them, but less. I drink only italian whites as they are the cleanest wines and rarely get headaches from them. When we were in italy, we drank a lot of wine and never got drunk and never got headaches. Very nice stuff. 3703. wonkers2 - 3/28/2006 3:03:02 PM I can drink a lot of good Spanish sherry (e.g. La Ina)without getting a head ache. But it does make one drunk! 3704. alistairconnor - 3/28/2006 3:17:40 PM I note I never get a headache from drinking organic wine. But often enough from drinking other stuff...
Sulphites are another head-hurter, and are generally much lower in organic wines. In Italy, wine-making is pretty "clean" these days -- whenever I ask for organic wine, they tell me, well, this is "nearly organic" and it's pretty true. 3705. Magoseph - 3/28/2006 3:50:39 PM I used to drink this one Côtes du Rhône Villages and never became inebriated, but then I was young.
3706. Magoseph - 3/28/2006 3:51:32 PM Oh, I didn mean to imply that I drank mild. 3707. Magoseph - 3/28/2006 3:51:56 PM Didn't, darn! 3708. Magoseph - 3/28/2006 3:52:38 PM Milk, darn! No, I had no wine...yet. 3709. wonkers2 - 3/28/2006 3:53:07 PM I thought the Italians added bull's blood or something to their red wines? Is my memory failing me? 3710. thoughtful - 3/28/2006 3:57:40 PM I only remember that they crushed the grapes with their feet...adding that certain je ne c'est qua. 3711. PelleNilsson - 3/28/2006 4:18:14 PM It's an Hungarian brand that has bull's blood in the name. 3712. wonkers2 - 3/28/2006 4:18:27 PM Maybe this is what I was half-remembering about Italian wines? Methanol. 3713. wonkers2 - 3/28/2006 4:37:47 PM What is red wine? 3714. alistairconnor - 3/28/2006 4:52:00 PM No, in the old days, various things were used for fining wines. The principle is that if you put animal protein into solution -- e.g. egg whites, or blood -- it binds to the little particles and causes it to precipitate out.
These days, it's generally filtered instead. And in any case, your real wine snob will not object to a certain amount of solid matter in the bottom of the bottle. 3715. thoughtful - 3/29/2006 2:50:31 PM lees? beeswing?
I think i spend too much time doing xword puzzles. 3716. Jenerator - 4/4/2006 9:21:02 PM I got a new espresso machine yesterday. I am so excited! 3717. Jenerator - 4/4/2006 9:25:47 PM It's the Nespresso
D290.
 3718. Magoseph - 4/4/2006 9:30:24 PM Nice, Jen, very nice--have you tried it yet? 3719. Jenerator - 4/4/2006 9:40:36 PM Yes and I love it. I get to buy those nifty ultra-fresh capsules and the temperature, pressure and timing are perfect.
The best thing is that it is powerful while being small so it won't take up too much counterspace.
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