What are low-allergy wines?
Wine is a complex beverage that contains many different compounds. The problem is that these compounds are aggravating to some people. This can be due to a single compound, but more often it is due to the ‘total load’ of compounds that raises a person’s tolerance above their threshold limit. At Monahan Wines, we make low allergy wines that contain less of the substances that cause allergies. The more common allergens found in wine tare grape tannins, oak tannins, sulphites, potassium sorbate, ethanol alcohol, salicylates and amines. One of my areas of research in complementary medicine was food chemicals, and how they affect metabolic function. Everyone is affected by chemicals to some extent, but they respond differently. In some ways, the people that are ‘highly sensitive’ are the lucky ones, because they avoid the things that cause problems. There are other people ‘as tough as nails’ that do not get reactions to food chemicals, so their body does not signal them to stop. I had a goo
