[Sca-cooks] Is this a wine myth?

[Gretchen Beck]

--On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:38 AM -0700 Anne-Marie Rousseau 
<dailleurs at liripipe.com> wrote:

> 1. according to humoral theory, spices in your wine helped digestion, etc
> and were good after a heavy meal.
> 2. spoiled wine? Is vinegar. Also useful. :) and all the spices in the
> world wont turn vinegar into wine. Even if you're a Victorian ;).
> 3. spiced wine is tasty! And can take a less than perfect (not spoiled,
> but one that is not so tasty on its own) and make it much nicer. Like
> what I do with crème de cassis and cheap white burgundies ;).

and 4. Many red wines are aged in oak casks. It's not a factor in spoilage, 
it adds desired tannens to the wine.

toodles, margaret