[Avodah] wine choice

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 04/01/2015 02:05 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> Now let's discuss how big a revi'is was back then... But even without
> that, I have no idea how any of them would have gotten anywhere near
> drunk. Why would R' Yonah have a headache until shavu'os off some 16 oz
> total of 3% wine? Do we have to assume it was the alcohol? Maybe he was
> a later owner of Abayei's kos...

I don't think it's at all plausible that it was the alcohol.  I have long
assumed that he had some sort of allergy or intolerance for some component
of grapes or grape skins, or perhaps for the sulfites with which wine was
(and is still) preserved.  It's well known that there are people today who
get headaches from sulfites.

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