Citations:chateau migraine

English citations of chateau migraine and Chateau Migraine

• 1994, P. J. Vinken, G. W. Bruyn, “Intoxications of the Nervous System, Part 1”, in Handbook of Clinical Neurology, page 116:

  […] with statements on the controversy whether red rather than white wines induce headache, Burgundies rather than Clarets, or ‘plonk’ (colloquially known as ‘Chateau Migraine’, and in past French usage as ‘vin chasse-cousin’) rather than vintage millesimes.

• 2007, Gad Shimron, Mossad Exodus: The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe, Gefen Publishing House Ltd (→ISBN), page 157:

  Eritrean brandy was also known as “Chateau Migraine” for the horrible headache — like a hammer pounding on the temples — that was an inseparable part of the drinking experience. The heavy midday heat in Tokar chased even the toughest of denizens to the few shaded ...

• 2010, Zimbabwe, a Passion Shared, Boekenplan (→ISBN), page 53

  White wine is great with it. But these guests are still drinking Leffe after the soup. ... Definitely not a Chateau Migraine, we thought. We work hard. We live hard. The country is hard and every week it seems to become harder.