"Anne Chambers" wrote in message
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'Mike' wrote:
"" This may be one reason why those sensitive to "red wine headache"
experience the problem with oaky young Bordeaux. (Too much "toast" in
the barrels.) ""

I have just picked this comment up over red wine giving one a headache. I
suffer this syndrome and thought it was 'just me' until I met others with
the same problem.

However, am I correct in saying that it is not all red wines, but those
produced in a certain way which is the problem, and if so, what do I look
for on a wine list which will be compatible?

I was out to Dinner in Coventry on Saturday and the young lady I took was
a red wine drinker, I was white. It would have been so much easier and we
could have had a bottle had we both been on red.

Thanks for any help and advice.

Mike

I find I can occasionally have a single glass of a light red and get away
with it, but a heavy red, in any quantity, *always* gives me a migraine
the next day.

White doesn't affect me much, unless I have an enormous amount - although
it takes less of a heavily oaked chardonnay to give me a headache.

I STR reading somewhere it has something to do with the amount of tannin
in the wine - I cannot remember if the oak barrels add extra tannin.


I'm suddenly not feeling so bad about being unable to stand red wine. It all
tastes like vinegar to me, even some quite expensive ones I've tried when
wine lovers have told me "You're not drinking the right ones, try this".

Steve