BTC_P2P on Nostr: The issue with wine that I’ve never heard talked about is the plant defense ...
The issue with wine that I’ve never heard talked about is the plant defense compounds (tannins, oxalates, natural pesticides) that get transferred and distilled into higher concentrations in the final product.
Bruce Ames wrote a very interesting paper about naturally occurring pesticides and their high concentration in all plants, and of course nobody wants to acknowledge it. But edible plants are completely full of these carcinogenic compounds by the dozens. Grapes included.
I know from experience that if I drink a bottle of wine (even high quality wine) I do not feel good anymore and I suspect it is the distilled bolus of plant defense compounds I’ve ingested. Spirits do not have the same effect as essentially none of the plant material has made it through distillation.
Bruce Ames wrote a very interesting paper about naturally occurring pesticides and their high concentration in all plants, and of course nobody wants to acknowledge it. But edible plants are completely full of these carcinogenic compounds by the dozens. Grapes included.
I know from experience that if I drink a bottle of wine (even high quality wine) I do not feel good anymore and I suspect it is the distilled bolus of plant defense compounds I’ve ingested. Spirits do not have the same effect as essentially none of the plant material has made it through distillation.