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Maybe it’s just a result of too much tannin in underdeveloped wine. I have been drinking a lot of cheaper stuff lately… I guess it’s time to move up a bit.

thanks for the note

In talking to people over the past year and in my personal experience beginning the wine journey, I’ve found that there is a minority of us that actually can’t consume even moderate quantities of red wine because of the sulfites, myself possibly being one of the unfortunate ones. I had my fair share of alcohol in college, and there is no doubt that there is something in red wine that doesn’t sit well with me, and I’ve talked to others that feel the same.

What really burns me up about this is how red wine has such incredible health benefits (see my post about the Human Elixir). Red wine not only has antioxidants, but resveratrol as well which stimulates the creation of more efficient Mitochondria.

I’m sensing a paradox here. Red wine was created to enhance human health and spirit through health benefits and social cohesiveness and comfortability. Then, you add this foreign ingredient (sulfur), which makes mass production easier and of course more cost effective — then you slowly start to see more people not able to consume the product because the sulfites negatively interact with their chemistry.

Thanks for the post Ruarri… I’ve wanted to get that rant out for awhile. Of course, I could be WAY off, but the intuition appears to be sound. Seems like the solution is to make the logistics systems awesome so that these smaller production wineries can get their product to market faster and not be forced to mess with it to save $$!