Cheaper wines cause fewer headaches? I don’t believe it.
Cheaper wines cause fewer headaches? I don’t believe it.
by lebortsdm
19 Comments
Mr_Dr_Prof_Dickface
I also don’t believe that
ScubaSteve_27
The headaches cheap wine helps to avoid are the ones you get when you look at your credit card statement after purchasing.
ceebs87
I have never found that to be the case
kitylou
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Pet_Nat
Because you couldn’t drink enough to warrant the hangover
Impossible-Charity-4
I’m sticking with my hypotheses of histamine reaction coupled with high sugar + whatever you ate that day + hydration.
greeneyeddruid
I think it’s the other way around—often times cheap wine can have more additives like extra sulfates and they can cause headaches.
jjr4884
This is actually very true – hard to get a headache when you throw the glass/bottle down the drain
tumguy
I also don’t believe it. As in, I don’t think this is true. The article states this purported link between quercetin and headaches is completely unverified and untested on humans.
lifeboy91
If you saw what those “grapes” look like on a vine you’d be turned off that you actually consume that shit. You like what you like tho.
TwoMuddfish
I just assume theirs more synthetic stuff in crap wine lol
caelthel-the-elf
Oh god I remember sneaking my mom’s carlo rossi and telling her I was just drinking cranberry juice lol. I’d feel so sick the next day.
ProfessorTeru
Probably kind of nuanced/a mixed bag.
A lot of big wineries that make cheap(er) wine have more quality control because it’s an industrialized process, though that often means more additives (esp. in the US) and of course poorer quality ingredients. The laws are so weird.
On the other hand, wine from certain kinds of small vineyards can have their own issues… we’ve all probably experienced a bottle or two that had some not-so-great microbe content.
Perhaps the middle path is best. But also swill is swill, you know what you’re getting with the lowest. Convenience and some sketch juice.
Bottom line: we should all support more smaller wineries because most of them are incredible and they need our help! The amount a case costs directly from some amazing mom & pop wineries can often rival what you’d get at the liquor store for crap.
MechanicalBirbs
I always assumed the headache front cheap wine thing was more than likely a result of people drinking a massive amount of it at once. If I open a $100 bottle of wine, I’m likely sharing it or I drink it pretty slowly.
Compare that to the people in my family who drink white Zinfandel out of a pint glass with ice, then complain the next day.
PolarSquirrelBear
I really don’t understand this article at all.
Yes quercetin levels are affected by sun exposure on grapes, but that’s not to say that there are not cheap wines that might have higher quercetin levels. And if anything all the sugar and adulterants put into cheap wines will likely give you a headache anyways.
This article would have been better written as just to drink white to avoid higher levels of quercetin.
Illustrious-Divide95
Cheaper wines get less sunshine?
What a croc. Mass produced wine vines are often located in hot and sunny climates that see a ton of sun!
California’s Central Valley, Australia’s Riverland/Riverina, South African Brede River Valley etc.
A damn sight more sun and warmth than Piemonte, Bordeaux, Burgundy, etc.
IAmPandaRock
They definitely cause less headaches… because you drink as little of them as possible.
rnjbond
I guess I’m less likely to drink too much when cheap drug store wine, so there is that to counter the negative impacts of added sugar.
thorvard
Paisano is our jam. Used to be the “house” red in my household. My Dad said it tasted just like his Dad’s homemade wine.
Only problem is I can’t find it now any less than 4L. I like it but I’m not drinking 4L of it before it starts to turn
19 Comments
I also don’t believe that
The headaches cheap wine helps to avoid are the ones you get when you look at your credit card statement after purchasing.
I have never found that to be the case
Report by Yellowtail
Because you couldn’t drink enough to warrant the hangover
I’m sticking with my hypotheses of histamine reaction coupled with high sugar + whatever you ate that day + hydration.
I think it’s the other way around—often times cheap wine can have more additives like extra sulfates and they can cause headaches.
This is actually very true – hard to get a headache when you throw the glass/bottle down the drain
I also don’t believe it. As in, I don’t think this is true. The article states this purported link between quercetin and headaches is completely unverified and untested on humans.
If you saw what those “grapes” look like on a vine you’d be turned off that you actually consume that shit. You like what you like tho.
I just assume theirs more synthetic stuff in crap wine lol
Oh god I remember sneaking my mom’s carlo rossi and telling her I was just drinking cranberry juice lol. I’d feel so sick the next day.
Probably kind of nuanced/a mixed bag.
A lot of big wineries that make cheap(er) wine have more quality control because it’s an industrialized process, though that often means more additives (esp. in the US) and of course poorer quality ingredients. The laws are so weird.
On the other hand, wine from certain kinds of small vineyards can have their own issues… we’ve all probably experienced a bottle or two that had some not-so-great microbe content.
Perhaps the middle path is best.
But also swill is swill, you know what you’re getting with the lowest. Convenience and some sketch juice.
Bottom line: we should all support more smaller wineries because most of them are incredible and they need our help! The amount a case costs directly from some amazing mom & pop wineries can often rival what you’d get at the liquor store for crap.
I always assumed the headache front cheap wine thing was more than likely a result of people drinking a massive amount of it at once. If I open a $100 bottle of wine, I’m likely sharing it or I drink it pretty slowly.
Compare that to the people in my family who drink white Zinfandel out of a pint glass with ice, then complain the next day.
I really don’t understand this article at all.
Yes quercetin levels are affected by sun exposure on grapes, but that’s not to say that there are not cheap wines that might have higher quercetin levels. And if anything all the sugar and adulterants put into cheap wines will likely give you a headache anyways.
This article would have been better written as just to drink white to avoid higher levels of quercetin.
Cheaper wines get less sunshine?
What a croc.
Mass produced wine vines are often located in hot and sunny climates that see a ton of sun!
California’s Central Valley, Australia’s Riverland/Riverina, South African Brede River Valley etc.
A damn sight more sun and warmth than Piemonte, Bordeaux, Burgundy, etc.
They definitely cause less headaches… because you drink as little of them as possible.
I guess I’m less likely to drink too much when cheap drug store wine, so there is that to counter the negative impacts of added sugar.
Paisano is our jam. Used to be the “house” red in my household. My Dad said it tasted just like his Dad’s homemade wine.
Only problem is I can’t find it now any less than 4L. I like it but I’m not drinking 4L of it before it starts to turn