Wine lees are made up of dead yeast cells, skin fragments and insoluble tartrates.
lees
n.pl.
5pl. of lee (obs. in sing.) < ME lie < OFr < ML lia < Gaul *liga, akin to OIr lige, a bed, layer < IE base *legh3 > LIE16 dregs or sediment, as of fermenting wine
Wine you can chew - great stuff!
dxb, for real? I'm gullible. Do people really chew wine lees? If so, bet it makes their teeth turn dark purple.
Beats chewing wine stossens.
dxb, for real?
No! I suspect it would be bad for the stomach. I base that on the need to decant any wine that throws a sediment, and generally I would avoid any wine (or beer) that had stuff floating in it. Certainly beer like that is likely to cause diarrhoea, and wine would at the least be unpalatable. But I am speaking from instinct not personal experience (except for the beer), I am sure there are others here with knowledge of the effects on the body.
A well known sailor of Chinese American descent, Elmer Lee, was sent by Life magazine in the early ‘50s to report on the marriage customs of a remote Patagonian community. Nothing was heard from him for eighteen months and the magazine became worried for the safety of Lee and his crew. They sent a second ship to search for him and hired an ex-naval captain to lead the expedition. After many weeks Lee and his men were found stranded in a shallow bay on the coast of Tierra Del Fuego. The Captain of the rescue expedition addressed the leader of the stranded crew with these immortal words “Ah! Sweet Mister Lee of Life, at last I’ve found you.”
I had thought the reporter was the son former Korean President Syngman Rhee.