Pregnant Women

There I was, enjoying a nice cold glass of Sancerre with my dinner, when my eye wandered to the symbol at the bottom of the label. It’s a symbol that I’ve seen hundreds of times – usually on the back of my Corona in the pub – but it really got me thinking this time. Thank God, I thought, THANK GOD that symbol is there. How helpful would it be, if I was pregnant right now, and was just about to pour myself a glass of wine to go with my meal? How helpful would it be to see that symbol and be suitably forewarned that its not suitable for pregnant women? I would have continued on, unsupervised, in ignorance, lashing into the vino unaware of the dangers that lurked within. Also, THANK GOD, that it’s a symbol and not spelled out in the letters of our mother tongue. The symbol of cour...