On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:50:23 +0100, James Dempster
wrote:


I've always enjoyed the "headaches are caused by sulfites" argument.
From my earliest student days I've always associated headaches with my
own choice of drinking to excess, be it silly things like a night of
tequila slammers (then) or opening that second bottle of port and then
rounding off the evening with Islay malt (now).

The sulfite argument always seems to be down to people who either
can't take responsibility for their own actions and always need to
blame someone else.

Of course they didn't get a headache in Europe because no one who knew
them were there to see them get sh*tfaced drunk. Back home they
weren't in that state at all, it was an allergic reaction to the
sulfites or something :-)

I enjoyed reading your post James, somehow people think that wine is
the only food product with sulfites.

It is strange how, irrespective of sulfite amounts, there are some
wines that in no time can give you a headache that feels like someone
is driving a screwdriver (not the drink) through your brain, while
other wines seem to allow you to drink a quantity so generous that
other things may happen before you notice any headache...

One wine that consistently gives me a headache (and I do not often get
wine headaches) is Domaine Ott Blanc de Blancs (stupid name is it not,
as if other whites were not blanc de blancs). Maybe that is what gives
headaches, silly labels?

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France
email link http://www.tommasi.org/mymail