SnickersDOM gives you some good information about the risks of wine drinking. I want to assure you that the rewards can be significant as well. The high point of my life has been growing and consuming wine and visiting wine growing areas. I have met some wonderful people in the World of Wine. My wine consumption has been nearer a bottle of wine than a glass per day for over 60 years. I am 86 years old and have never been admitted to a hospital.
@SnickersDOM Thank you for asking. In southern Maryland we grew the usual French Hybrids for home wine makers. In Parras de la Fuente, Mexico we grew the common wine types. (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petite Syrah, Zinfandel, Sangiovese). The climate in Parras was too hot for Sauvignon Blanc so we bled Sangiovese (Brunello clone) for white wine. By far my favorite wine grape is Cabernet Sauvignon. I have never learned to like Pinot Noir. My knowledge of Loire Valley wines is close to zero. You obviously know far more about European wines than I do. So as not to bore others, we should probably go private for any further discussions.
@redredred I know what you are saying. Alcohol is a cultural habit. I am not going to use the excuse that Jesus turned water into wine. My heroine, Queen Elizabeth II, drank everyday of her life: a gin before lunch, a glass of wine with lunch and another one with dinner, a dry gin martini after dinner, and a nightcap: a glass of Champagne before bed. She lived to be 96, and Jesus never died.
@sree251 Jesus if he ever existed is certainly dead. Despite anecdotal evidence from a queen who had access to the best medical care available in her whole country, alcohol is a poison particularly inimical to protein. Drink up but don’t try to claim alcohol is therapeutic or even harmless.
Drink up but don’t try to claim alcohol is therapeutic or even harmless.
Bénédictine D.O.M. is a complex French herbal liqueur with a secret recipe of 27 herbs and spices, including saffron, honey, and citrus, that dates back to 1510. I am not saying that imbibing like a fool is good for your health. Everything including drinking water, done to excess, is harmful. One time, I served a beer to a senior in high school. He never tasted beer before. He took one sip and spat it out. And that's ok too.
I can’t drink red wine. One glass a day for 3 days will cause crystals to form on my knees. They feel like small gravel. And if I go to pick up something and squat down to do it, when I stand up it’s like fire in my knees. I don’t know what’s going on with that but aspirin does the same thing. Takes about 5-6 months for the deposits to dissolve and then the pain goes away.
@Lillybee17 I have told them but they never say anything about it. I believe it is the salicylates that are in wine (especially red wine) and in aspirin too. I can’t take anything with aspirin in it including Pepto Bismol or Alka Seltzer. I was given aspirin for bad headaches as a child and would vomit after taking one and also Pepto Bismol would make me vomit.
@Lillybee17 I didn’t need a doctor to tell me not to drink wine etc. I told them what I couldn’t tolerate and they wrote it down. I believe it is something genetic. Both my grandmothers had problems with fruits & veggies that were red and they couldn’t eat them. I don’t know what their symptoms were but one grandmother would plant yellow watermelons and yellow tomatoes and eat those. The other one would get cantaloupe for herself for when everyone else was having watermelon.
