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Do You Like Wine, But ... It Doesn’t Like You?

Diana Todd-Banks Former Int’l Wine Marketing Consultant and & US Wine Importer

Finding a suitable wine for you and your body can seem like a fruitless exercise certainly when you continually experience negative reactions to wine.

You could do some complex time consuming research on this entire topic, if you knew what to search for, or to save you time and money, you could read this article. For 28 years I was an international wine consultant and Australia’s first female wine importer in the US.

In this article you can read about the results of my continuing personal research on this wine topic, which began well over 4 decades ago as I constantly experienced nasty reactions to wine. Yet I persisted and even today I still explore looking for what I call ‘friendly wines.’

Because of my professional involvement with wine, I had the pleasure of regularly associating with Australian and American oenologists – wine scientists - who studied all aspects of wine and winemaking except growing and harvesting. This association gave me the wonderful opportunity to discuss with these specialists the reasons behind why many wine drinkers have adverse reactions to wine.

While many people do appear to have reactions to wine, they blame wine as the culprit rather than delving deeper.

For your exploration on this topic, grape variety is without doubt the first area to address but I’ll mention that last. However brand, wine style and wine maker are other important issues to address.

This article addresses varying styles of red wine including a surprising ingredient as a preservative – sulphites from petroleum … yes petroleum!

To provide you with practical useable information let’s look at a list of most of the possible triggers followed by a simple explanation about each.

Barring any clearly defined allergic responses, there are numerous points each person does need to explore in order to fully enjoy the pleasures of wine.

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Book Coaching Testimonial

When I started my book coaching sessions with Di, I was feeling very overwhelmed due to the fact that I was relating in 6 weeks as well as writing my book Happy Mind Formula and being committed to completing two courses related to my book.

I didn’t want to use moving as an excuse to not write for 6 weeks.

In my coaching sessions Di worked with me to set a goal to finish the food section of my book before I relocated. In this process we worked through ‘chunking’ the goal down. Di helped me to break the goal down into much smaller sections, which made it much easier for me to manage.

As a result, what initially seemed overwhelming became easy because I only had to complete one section of the food chapter each week. This allowed me to focus on that particular area and be so much more productive and creative.

Having a coach also removed any opportunity for procrastination. We set goals each week and these goals were reviewed in our call the following week. Having this commitment helped to make sure that no obstacles got in the way of me achieving my goal.

In 5 weeks I have managed to complete writing the food section, stay on task and de-clutter my home ready to relocate. Thank you for providing me with a special place to achieve my book writing goals in what could have been a challenging time.

T. C. Townsville, Queensland Australia