White Wine

No- I am fine after 2-3 glasses of white or red wine to the extent that I restrict myself to a bottle every 4-6 weeks or I may well be joining the AA. I have never had any after effects.

I'm fine with red wine, it just seems to be white wine? I'll avoid it in future, if I remember!

No problem here!

I think it depends on your mood and upon what you are drinking. I much prefer Sauvignon Blanc or Chianti to say Chardonnay. Some of them are rather too oakey for my palate.

Prosecco is always nice - even nicer with strawberries or cherries or chocolate truffles in read my thread and see what one glass did for me today

..and of course there's always the company... I am available to rent by the hour purely for the purpose of coming round and having a drink

I'm in a brill mood today x

I can't drink even one glass of white wine. It upsets my stomach and makes me feel dreadful. I restrict myself to red and the occasional glass of rose and keep a bottle of white in the fridge for risotto and bouef stroganoff! It wasn't always thus. I started my excursion into wine drinking, like I suspect most people did, with whites, and in the eighties, when we were living in Europe, we drank some wonderful French and German whites, but then I gravitated toward reds and now can only drink red. I do miss the odd glass of Puilly Fume though...... Or a nice Chablis!

The white (and red) wine has been flowing here all weekend thanks to a family get-together. Definitely nobody feeling depressed or miserable

I love a chilled glass of white wine or maybe even 2 when the weather is good. It has to be a good quality dry white though. However, more than 2 upsets my tummy and leaves me feeling rather dehydrated. Hadn't noticed depression. Perhaps you were feeling down about something bartonlady.

Maybe it's when the initial effects wear off. It's well known that alcohol is basically a depressive.

When I reached 60 I found that I could no longer drink alcohol in any volume, it made me feel really quite ill. I think as you get older your body does not metabolise the alcohol so well.

I usually have a glass of red or white every night with my meal, but if I had a brandy and 3 glasses of wine I would also feeling depressed

After a girls night that involved a lot of supermarket white wine (and one person who became a sneaky topper-upper) I was quite poorly and although not drunk felt poisoned and quite miserable all the next day I switched to organic wine to reduce the sulphides as suggested by a health conscious friend. It works on two levels - fewer chemicals and, as its more expensive and a less readily available, I am less keen to open a bottle. One 12 bottle case from Waitrose lasts me almost three times as long and I am a lot healthier for it!

Nope, not a problem here!

I find that sometimes cheaper wines affect my stomach which more expensive ones do not. I could drink good Champagne all evening and be fine but a glass or so of plonk and I don't feel so good.

I can drink most anything but in moderation. A hangover would be cured by the afternoon in my youth, as I got older the time to recover lengthened. Now I'd be in a terrible state for 2 days. So I'm careful. I do love alcohol though...any alcohol.

Anything is better after a glass of white wine...just takes longer to recover.

I go bright red if I drink white wine- so only have when with good friends or family- and never ever in the evening or that is a night's sleep gone.

No problem with red wine though. I have many friends who do not get on with white wine, one way or another.

I don't drink white wine either as it gives me awful heartburn so I stick to red and then 2 glasses is my limit if I'm out. It doesn't make me depressed though - just very tired! I often wish I did like white as it looks delicious and the bottles in my fridge very tempting - a bit like all the wonderful array of spirits on the supermarket shelves which I also don't drink but could be tempted to buy

Mr P refers to Sparkling wine (especially Champagne) as a glass of something " restorative"

phoenix there are 2 alcoholic drinks which I hate, one is rose and the other is sparkling wine or even sparkling water.

There is a great Swiss wine I can drink in the evening- it's called Oeil de Perdrix, and it is made with red grapes, but the skins are not steeped very long. It is a rosé, but very dry and tasty.

Nothing wrong with AA, been in for 30 years ?

I haven't touched white wine for over thirty one years.....I consumed so much of it on my hen night, and was so ill afterwards, that it put me off for life!
I do like a drop of Irish Whiskey though, and the occasional Bloody Mary is always welcome!

Thank you for for your advice, I also googled it and it seems that white wine (especially the 3 for £10.)!! can cause some to feel negative effects....so as I said before I'll stick to the red and my glass of brandy! Thanks again.