Lately we've been on a serious budget, so we've been drinking pretty "affordable" wine (under $10). I've noticed that sometimes, just 2 glasses of wine can give me a brutal hangover the next day!!
Is it just a coincidence? Or does cheap wine give you more of a hangover?
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
Not always...Some do, yes. Actually I think it happens more now that I'm older. DH picks on me bc I buy like $10 wine, and I do sometimes get headaches with 2 glasses! But some time ago, that didnt happen! Old age + cheap wine = headache for me:)
pomegranate / 3759 posts
Im the same way after just 2 glasses now! Like can't move from the couch hungover. I guess im now a cheap drunk!
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
@mrbee: What's your definition of cheap? DH buys $20 bottles and I think that's excessive for everyday wine! I think $10-$12 is more reasonable for "weekday wine."
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@PrincessBaby: Lately we've been buying $8 bottles. I guess I would define cheap/affordable as single-digit priced bottles of wine?
eggplant / 11824 posts
Depends. Not to be too much of a snob, but there are actually really decent wines under $10, and there are real crap, but cheap wines under $10. Just like bad (cheap) champagne, bad wine = hangover.
Buy some good, cheap wine and experiment! ;p
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
I think it's just that I'm a lightweight more than the price... but I haven't had a drink in 15 months (am actually dying for a glass of wine right now!!!) so even $1000 champagne would probably floor me at the moment, lol.
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
@mrbee: I'd love to find a decent $8 bottle! If you have any recommendations, please share! I'm always scared to go under $10 for taste and for getting picked on by DH:)
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@yoursilverlining: I am "experimenting" right now!
@PrincessBaby: Buy two bottles and scrape the prices off... then do a blind taste test with your DH!! Whichever one he picks, tell him that's the cheaper bottle... haha just kidding!
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
@travelgirl1: Wait- I thought you were going to celebrate Baby Girl's freedom (don't want to say her name in non-gold!)!?!
eggplant / 11824 posts
@PrincessBaby: do you have a trader joe's near you? They have some decent wines under $8 a bottle. One I like is French; I'm in bed now but I'll get the name for you in the morning. It's got a goat on the label 
The one that we drink (everyday... haha I know you like your wine like I do!) is La Vielle Ferme. It's also a French red. About $6.99-8.99 depending on the store.
I also like the Mondavi Private Reserves which are about $10 a bottle.
Just over $10 ($12-$15) is the Marquis de Caseras: Spanish red. Vvvvvvery tasty.
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
@yoursilverlining: No trader Joe's in SoFlo, but when we move to Charleston in June (shrieks!!!) there is a Trader Joe's in walking distance of our house and I can barely contain my excitement!!! Yes, I am a wino. H is asleep right now and I'm having a massive glass of Layer Cake Malbec (A SPLURGE for me at $16.99!!!)...I copied and pasted your recs!!!! Thank you so much!
nectarine / 2220 posts
Well, a bottle of wine that would be in the $10.00 range for you guys is probably about $16 here, so I REALLY wouldn't trust a $10 bottle most likely.
I don't seem to have an issue with cheap white wine, but poorly chosen red wine gives me migraines.
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
@mrbee: I should totally do that! He just likes to give me a hard time, lol...He calls it "flirting." I call it "harassment."
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
@PrincessBaby: I soooo had planned to but being free has done a number on her sleep. She basically stopped napping for three days and woke up about six times a night for the first three days out of it so I couldn't drink as she wanted to nurse (still won't take a bottle, thus stopping me hitting the bottle). Gah. And today I realised I really, really, really could do with a big fat greedy glass of red. And a dance to some totally cheesy music, which is so not going to happen until I quit breastfeeding. Sigh.
pomegranate / 3329 posts
@yoursilverlining: I absolutely agree with this, there are also some really bad "expensive" wines!
@mrbee: I find that wines with added sulfites give me a headache, check the back label. There are natural occuring sulfites in all wine, but the added sulfites kill me.
bananas / 9118 posts
I can drink Beringer White Zin by the bottle with no problems
But if I drink 1 glass of Pinot Grigio, I pretty much always have a headache the next day. I try to avoid that one!
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6581 posts
Weeeell, DH and I used to drink 3$ bottles of wine when we were super broke, and they didn't give me a worse hangover than what we drink now, which is still considered cheap I guess; the max we spend on wine is 15$ because we have a good local winery here, Messina Hoff, that is super affordable.
Wine in general just gives me heart burn, but not hangovers so much
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
Update: I am hungover from 2 glasses again. I think I'll just stop drinking, this is ridiculous!
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
I've never bought a bottle over $10 and neither of us has ever been hungover, but I also try to find wines that are 12% alcohol or less. We're sissies that way.
nectarine / 2127 posts
Wine? What's that?
Haha, I can't hardly remember the last time I had a glass of wine.
My favorite was arbor mist blackberry merlot... Im such a wine snob lol. I don't recall any wine hangovers but I never got trashed on wine, I just liked an occasional glass in the evenings here and there.
eggplant / 11824 posts
@PrincessBaby: Here's info on those wines I was telling you about last night. All legit good and cheap!!
Casa Santos Lima Quinta de Bons Ventos, Vinho Regional Lisboa, Portugal (red)
Trader Joe's: La Ferme Julian (Rhone red)
also tasty....
Almos - malbec or red blend (about $8-$14)
Schmitt Sohne Riesling (not too sweet)
ETA: I like bold reds, and I do NOT like sweet wine so that's what these are mostly like 
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
@yoursilverlining: You rock! I'm going to our wine store tomorrow to stock our wine cooler for DH's return home on Friday and I'm bringing this list!
coconut / 8483 posts
hmm I never really thought about it! I never buy super nice wine... usually in the $10-14 range.. but maybe that is really cheap for Canada prices?
Sometimes when we go to SC in the summer we get $3 bottles and they are so great.. but we drink so much that we would get a hang over whether it was good or not.
I'll have to experiment
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
@mrbee: Nooooo! Don't give up wine!!!!
It depends on the wine. Whites definitely give me a headache over reds. Some cheap wine give me a headache, some don't. To make sure I don't get a headache, I drink a big glass of water before I go to bed and make sure I have something on my stomach. Most times, headaches are due to being dehydrated.
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