Red wine - one for the experts

[Jaguar steve]

Why do some reds make us feel so rough after just a couple of glasses, yet Me and the o/h can drink others all evening and feel fine the next day?

Shared a bottle of Italian red with Mrs JS last night and drank nothing else either and both of us woke at 2.30 am covered in sweat with pounding headaches. Felt so rough neither of us could get back to sleep so as you might have guessed we both look and feel our very best at the moment. We're regular wine drinkers and have had exactly the same occur before - It's almost like you've been poisioned.

Not really sure if it's a price issue either - some really cheap supermarket plonk is OK yet more expensive or supposedly up market wine give us both the same problem

Is there some addative in some wines that might be causing this - I've heard Ethelyne Glycol used to be put in some wine to sweeten it - is that what's causing us to feel so rough? Maybe it's some other ingredient but without any food labelling on bottles it's going to be impossible to find out what it is and how to avoid it.

It's not happening often enough to pin it down to anything but when it does it's nothing like a normal hangover - and I'm an expert on those.

Any suggestions - apart from stoping drinking

[Jaguar steve]

Don said:

Jaguar steve said:

It's not happening often enough to pin it down to anything but when it does it's nothing like a normal hangover - and I'm an expert on those.

This would suggest that it is something accompanying the wine. Can you think of another causal factor?

That's what I'd thought and have tried to isolate another cause but really can't. In fact what prompted my post was the only thing in commom me and Mrs JS had drunk was the couple of glasses of wine - we'd both eaten different food all day and both felt dog rough after the wine. I'm usually able to drink quite heavily without any symptoms of a hangover, and even when I get one it's nothing like what certain wine makes me feel like.

[Jaguar steve]

VTECMatt said:

There is a reason why a part of the wine industry does not want to list what they put in the wine and it's not so others can copy

Nail on head I recon - even toothpaste has a list of ingredients on the tube and you'd not be eating several glasses of that for pleasure.

So - any idea how to find out exactly what you're drinking?