Aside from any particular mystery substance in the wine (including pesticides, tannins, and sulphates), the dehydration alone from 7 alcoholic drinks taken in short order I would expect to make pretty much everything ache, especially if you aren't a regular drinker.

I think some auto-immune disorders like Rheumatoid Arthritis can flare up with high ingestion of alcohol too. If you have a history of arthritis in your family (regardless of your age now), you might want to be careful with the stuff. http://www.healthcentral.com/rheumatoid-arthritis/c/38/33035/drinking

Maybe it is related to the fact that Rose wine is usually on the sweet side- you don't often drink, especially that amount, and it was just too much at once. I prefer and usually drink dry red wine daily and have not had any hip pain.

Since I've cleaned up my act, eating wise, I've noticed that discrete events that I didn't notice before set me up for some sort of pain or imbalance. Drinking wine is one of these (and I, like AnnaA, drink dry red wine). I have found that if I have a glass of wine or two, I wake up with my left knee (the worse one) swollen and clicky. It happened the other night with sake, too.

I did a google search and found a lot of people with anecdotal evidence linking drinking to joint pain, and a lot of them had docs who said they couldn't possibly be linked. There's always the chance of gout, too, if it's a uric acid thing.

He didn't go into it but in Jack Kruse's interview with Jimmy Moore he said he tore his meniscus just from standing up while having a few drinks and he said that during his research, the event ended up making complete sense. Maybe he goes into it on his website? (jackkruse.com) Or maybe he'll chime in here?

Sorry for the semi-answer, but maybe it will lead you somewhere.

its very likely that that much alcohol irritated the crap out of your intestine lining causing a leaky gut condition. the rest of the story is the subsequent rheumatoid arthritis. i would limit the drink to one from now on.or you can test it out buy drinking all that wine again to see if it makes you hurt. thats what i would do.

Interesting. I had wine last night (which I very rarely do), and this morning my knee has been hurting (also rare for me). And, now that I think about it, I had a few hip twinges, too. I hadn't even thought about a possible connection until I saw this post.

Hi Thanks for the input. I started about 10 years ago having a glass or two of red wine most every day. Now, I am starting to develop joint pain. I am going to experiment, drink only twice a week, and I will let you all know the results.

Here is somethibg, how about Wine & a resent accident? Not wanting to get to drinking a lot but the wine seems to work better than the pain pills perscribed. So if I'm going to drink a glass or two I don't take any of the pills that day. Will this interfer with my healing from the accident where some bones were broken

I wonder if rather than being chemical (i.e., the wine is causing a reaction somewhere that's causing inflammation) if it's purely physical. What I mean by that is that maybe being even slightly drunk is enough to make you walk or move in a weird way that hurts your joints. There's lots of evidence that the loss of proprioception from things as simple as soft running shoes makes you move in a way that injures your joints. So maybe the loss of coordination (however small) from the alcohol make you hurt your joints.

I get bad pains in my joints from drinking even a small amount of wine. I've been to the doctor and blood tests show elevated uric acid levels. I have had a history of gout as well. Alcohol is the culprit, I fear. I miss alcohol.