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Originally Posted by orlok
I used to get red wine headaches, and even worse, after a few glasses half of my face would go red - it was a straight line down the middle of my face with one half white, the other red. Very embarrassing. And then one day it just stopped, and I'm fine now, including the headaches.
On my third glass now  |
I went for years and years with no issue. When we lived in California we had a cellar of >700 bottles of some of the very best California, Oregon and Washington state wines, with a heavy emphasis on the California reds. When we immigrated to Canada, we brought ~450 bottles with us. And then about 3 years after we got up here, I started getting red wine headaches. With hundreds of bottles of premium California Cabernet, Zinfandel, and Pinot Noir that I can only drink if I'm willing to have a splitting headache. Sigh. Somehow my wife's sympathy appears slightly shallow.
If I take 2 aspirin 30 minutes before I take a sip, I can sometimes get away with only a shadow headache. Probably 75% of the time with a Pinot Noir, maybe 50% of the time with a Zinfandel. And maybe 0% of the time with a Cabernet. All the Zin and Pinot Noir are long gone. But there are still a few of the Cabs left.