Hi all,
This may be a strange request, but here goes: My mother-in-law ate a dinner recently where she ate some old ham and drank one glass of old wine. The ham was about 5 days old (sat out unrefrigerated for at least an entire day during Easter), and the wine had been opened at least a year earlier. I'm not sure of the type of wine it was, but it was probably a white wine and she told me it was organic (expressly without sulfites). I'm not sure if the wine was refrigerated or not.
Soon after she ate this meal, she had severe diarrhea (involving hemorrhaging) and was sick for days. She swears that the poisoning came from the wine, but I believe that spoiled wine becomes acidic, which is self-stabilizing. The fact that she actually drank the entire glass of wine tells me that the wine must not have tasted too bad.
So I ask you, can old wine cause severe food poisoning such as the type that she suffered?
Thanks,
-Trent