Comment by ciupicri
5 hours ago
Though it's harder to drink the same amount of methanol if you have to drink lots of water too, i.e. the wine has not been distilled.
5 hours ago
Though it's harder to drink the same amount of methanol if you have to drink lots of water too, i.e. the wine has not been distilled.
I...guess. But if you're drinking enough that you exceed the safe threshold for methanol consumption through its marginal presence in the distillate, while somehow managing to tolerate the ethanol, I think you've got another more pressing issue to address.
In practice the distillate actually has less undesirable crap in it than the source wine, since one typically only keeps a part of the run from the still ("hearts") and disposes of the rest.