I remember a few years back I went to a wedding and had HELLA glasses of red wine lol. I noticed I didn’t get very drunk and the next morning me or my fiancé didn’t have a headache. We were both shook.
I recently listened to a podcast called Lipstick on the Rim and Todd White, the founder of a natural wine company called Dry Farm Wines was a guest and he was spilling all the dirty secrets of the wine industry.
He shared how a conventional red wine is typically soaked (maceration) for a longer time than a natural wine (so they can be denser, “full-bodied”) and therefore a conventional red wine will have high amounts of biogenic amines like histamine and tyramine which can cause different adverse reactions, for example a headache.
Now looking back, the red wines at the wedding were probably a high quality natural wine. Since natural wines tend to have less alcohol, it makes sense that I didn’t really get drunk after several glasses (just really elevated & good vibes lol) and I had no headache because again, natural wines are not processed like conventional wines are (with longer maceration times).
Todd also shared that conventional wines…
– are treated with excessive sulfur dioxide (3 times to be exact) once to kill native yeast, a second time to kill fermentation and leave residual sugar behind in wine and a third time to sterilize the wine and kill living bacteria which can be beneficial for the gut
– are made with gmo lab-cultured yeast
– have had their living bacteria killed off, some of which could beneficial for the gut
– like other conventional crops are *treated with glyphosate (a toxic herbicide – which is everywhere these days, literally) *not directly on grapes but around it (on either side) in the vineyard
– can contain any of the 76 FDA approved wine additives. Some are natural, some are toxic like Dimethyl dicarbonate. But because they don’t have to put a contents label, you don’t know what these additives in your wine are. Nor how much sugar there is.
Natural wines are always cultivated through biodynamic or organic farming, always fermented with wild native yeast, and are additive-free. The guy who served us at Ordinaire was talking about how the wine they sell is fermented with the natural yeast so I knew this place was legit.
Dry Farm Wines are also lower in alcohol, have no sugar, and are lab tested to prove said characteristics. Dry Farm Wines also don’t irrigate their grapes.
I’ve heard about Dry Farm Wines for a while and so I got a gift box for my brother recently but I def want to try them for myself sometime!
#naturalwine #organicwine #healthyswaps