I was expecting this kind of response. I live in a wine region, have lived in and visited other wine regions in other countries, know my wines fairly well and don't skimp when I purchase wine.
So no, it's not just because of "cheap" wine.
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Definitely not just because of the price. Many expensive wines have tons of additives.
Are you in the US?
Have you had much low intervention or natural wine?
I live in the wine region in South Africa, and before that I lived in wine region in the south of Germany.
Organic wine farming/making isn't very big here, so that might be a reason. The wines also have sulphites (which AFAIK happens naturally but they also add sulphites?).
In any case, I enjoy your content and I actually like wine. My comment was literally a day after a terrible wine headache.
I used to prefer red, but now I more and more go with white because of this.
Dude, thanks for the context! I bet if you look a little bit more you'll be able to find some low intervention wine around you and if not, it's going to be a lot easier to get French and Italian wine there than it is for me here.
If you love red wine and want to be able to drink it, trust me on this, you'll feel just fine after drinking low intervention wines