Your headache is your own fault

Everyone that thinks working at a winery all is fun and games, you try checking the wines at the start of your shift after an aggressive evening with friends.  Now I am in my bed, listening to The Shirelles, because I need someone to give me hope.  I would also just like to say that this is only the second time I have shown up to work tired from the night before in my life, so please keep the judgment to a limit.

So, this brings me to this rant:

Sulphites aren’t evil, you just make poor choices. Otherwise known as I drank too much of everything last night.

The amount of times that people say to me “I only drink sulphite free wine” is outrageous. So let’s start from the beginning…

There is no such thing as sulphite free wine. Sulphites occur naturally in the wine making practice. In all wines. Wines that market themselves as sulphite free, are likely just less, or no, sulphites added.

Wtf is a sulphite, and why is it added? Sulphites are an inclusive term for S02, which is basically the stuff that smells like dirty eggs.  S02 acts as saran wrap, in the fact that it keeps the grapes fresh, and prevents aging. It is like, why would you make apple cider out of oxidized brown apples? You wouldn’t. So, why have a different opinion on wine, and grapes? Discrimination, it is rearing its ugly head in our society yet again.

I would also like to say that the S02 levels in wine are vastly less than most of your other everyday foods, so relax for a minute. Sometimes people also say to me “I can’t drink red wine because of all the extra sulphites added”, let us get another thing straight, shall we? Red wine actually has LESS sulphites added than white wine. The reason is that there are a whole bunch more natural preservatives in red wine due to the higher levels of natural antioxidants (read: tannins hate people that try to crush their game)

What do sulphites do? “they give me headaches” wah wah wah, do other foods give you headaches and you blame sulphites? Why you gotta hate so hard? You blame things like allergies. Maybe you’re allergic to that grape. Or, here is a wild and crazy thought, maybe because wine is a depressant that dehydrates you, maybe it has to do with the fact that you need more water, or your body doesn’t want to be depressed right now. People need to relax on their sulphite scares.

You’re going to be hungover if you drink too much, or if you are dehydrated; so just deal with it and stop scapegoating things.

EVERY WINE HAS SULPHITES. And if you are allergic to sulphites, I hope you live somewhere where you can have your own orchard and are vegan because virtually everything you put into your body has sulphites.

 I am too tired to write anymore, and I have a date tomorrow in the MORNING. Like, BEFORE I GO TO WORK morning. I regret this choice already. Just leave me in my misery.

All my love,
M