What, No More Wine Headaches?

As wine drinkers, you've all been acquainted with this scenario at one time, or many times: you drink some wine, especially with dinner, you're feeling pretty good, and then the next day, or even as little as a few hours later you have a little monster creeping up that turns into a full-blown, throbbing headache. 

Well, there may be a way to avoid this in your future.  Chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a device that can detect chemicals, biogenic amines, found in wine that may be the culprits of these agonizing headaches.  They've been able to do this by working with the same NASA-funded technology designed to find life on Mars. 

These chemicals also occur naturally in many foods, so when drinking wine with food, these headaches can become worse depending on the foods you eat and the wine you drink.  Read More