Trent,
I eat/drink old, spoiled vine every day! Its called wine vinegar. Her
sickness is most likely called food poisoning from the old, dead, fermenting
pig called leftover ham. I believe that food poisoning can be "felt" as
quickly as 15 minutes after ingesting the bacteria.
On another note, any leftover (spoiled) wine that you don't want to drink
can be dumped into a container to be made into vinegar, assuming that you
have the vinegar culture (mother).
Al
"Trent Moorehead" > wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> This may be a strange request, but here goes: My mother-in-law ate a
> dinner recently where she ate some old ham and drank one glass of old
> wine. The ham was about 5 days old (sat out unrefrigerated for at
> least an entire day during Easter), and the wine had been opened at
> least a year earlier. I'm not sure of the type of wine it was, but it
> was probably a white wine and she told me it was organic (expressly
> without sulfites). I'm not sure if the wine was refrigerated or not.
>
> Soon after she ate this meal, she had severe diarrhea (involving
> hemorrhaging) and was sick for days. She swears that the poisoning
> came from the wine, but I believe that spoiled wine becomes acidic,
> which is self-stabilizing. The fact that she actually drank the entire
> glass of wine tells me that the wine must not have tasted too bad.
>
> So I ask you, can old wine cause severe food poisoning such as the
> type that she suffered?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Trent