LOL--My Great-Grandmother Was Right!  

Would probably have to eat a lot of grapes..LOL...no I think its the fermentation process that concentrates and releases that chemical

Actually I heard that red grapes are still very good for you for some of the same health benefits. It's funny how smart our granny's were!

Still would love to find out what my great grandmother meant by a "pony" that's driving me nuts not knowing..LOL

I heard the word with that meaning only a couple of times may be, and always from old people. Seems to be a quick shot in a small glass of any liquour.

I like having my wine with maybe some cheese...ah...my little luxury...Hehe

LOL...one of the reasons I have that glass of wine before I go to bed is to be honest to help me sleep...rather have that then a sleeping pill. I don't drink at any other time not even at get togethers or parties otherwise I'd be falling asleep

Aww--shame you can't drink red wine. I never used to care for dry wines in particular but the sicky sweet kind but would use the dry wines to cook with. Then one time for my birthday I wanted to buy myself a special wine. At the time I was a die hard fan of the movie The Man With The Iron Mask with Gabriel Byrne, John Malkovich, etc...well I got a kick of the brand of French wine as it was named D'Artagnon...but it was a red dry wine...but figured..what the heck why not try it? I loved it...so no more sweet wines thank you..love the dry wines now.

And here is this, which talks about how it came to be known as a 'pony glass':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_glass

Actually forget how young I was when I started to regularly drink wine but used to like the sweet wines...couldn't drink them now if you gave me a million dollars. Thought technically speaking my drinking days in a sense started much younger. This was years ago when I was a mere "babe"--LOL..That was when my great-grandmother, grandmother, mother and I all lived together (wonder there wasn't a war)...anyway "Grandma" my great-grandmother was my babysitter while the other two went to work. The "joke" was that when my grandmother and mother would come home there "Grandma" be sitting in front of the TV with her shots of Whiskey and I'd be sitting next to her with a big tumbler glass of....beer (maybe some whiskey in it too)--to this day can't STAND the taste of either
and yikes..thank you, thank you, thank you for that info on what a pony is...you've solved the mystery!!

Hahaha, I just read in some other post that 'Gato Negro' Merlot is Black Cat Merlot! Very funny... and appropriate! My sister once brought up a bottle of Merlot called 'Running With Scissors', hehehe! What kind of name is that for wine??

I still do like some sweet wines, like Elderberry, and also if I'm drinking a white wine I prefer it to be sweet, like a Liebfraumilch.

I've never tried Elderberry wine..my great-grandmother always mentioned that too, and she used to make her own dandelion wine...and yes, I though Gato Negro label is very appropriate...LOL

I made some dandelion wine one year. It was really quite fun gathering all the dandelions, it felt like a magic ritual, hehehe. The recipe called for a whole lot of sugar though. Anyway, I made the wine and bottled it up and put the bottles on my cool porch and waited for them to 'finish working'... except I didn't wait long enough before I corked them and the next thing I knew the corks had popped off like champagne corks do, and dandelion wine was all over my porch! What was left in the bottles I consolidated into 2 or 3 bottles and when we drank it a couple of years later it was really quite good!

One of my neighbors makes her own wine and she said she puts a balloon over the lip of the bottle and the balloon will expand as the fermentation process is at work, then when the balloon deflates it is safe to cork it up. I'll definitely do it that way next time!

Wow thanks for that balloon tip...should I ever make my own wine I'll have to remember that

Hehehe, yeah, that tip comes from an 80+ year old mountain woman who runs around with a shotgun, and is not afraid to use it!

OMG--my great-grandmother was good for saying "If it doesn't cure you it'll kill you..." And she was into using brandy for "cures" too..LOL

she had a pretty long life,so maybe there's something to that brandy
it smelled good,i'll give it that.

Hmm..maybe I should stock up on some brandy...the flavored brandies are great...heehee

Now your making me wanna buy blackberry brandy to put over ice cream. My dad used to do that as a special treat for us kids once in a while. Man how I loved the taste of it.

Oh my--blackberry brandy!! Yum!

blackbriar-was it vanilla ice cream?
i had that once..it was to die for

Wonder why it took our "scientific" teams to only discover it now...LOL.

you mean the research? it is at least 30 years old, but back when your grandmother said it,

well that is because research requires enough case studies, to see the correlations so that that many years and many subjects (people) to examine.

Not really my grandmother but great-grandmother who was born in 1875--she used to make her own dandelion wine too..said that was a cure-all for just about anything

Is kind of fitting no? Hehe

Wonder if I'll live to be as old as my great-grandmother then...so me with my Gato Negro Merlot, and Pyewacket and Kissy with their Mewolet...cheers