Cheers To Australia’s ‘Healthy’ Wine

During my recent longish stay in Australia, I have come to enjoy the wines there. Earlier, I preferred only French and Austrian wines. Now here comes a rather heartening/healthy news that would tempt me to make another visit to Australia asap!!!

“Although the benefits of wine have been known for centuries, new bottles from (Australia’s) ‘Wine Doctor vineyard’ are loaded with up to 100 times more resveratrol, the antioxidant that prevents the build-up of fat in arteries,” reports The Independent.

“Philip Norrie, who owns a vineyard in New South Wales, is producing wines with up to 100 times the antioxidant content of a standard drop. He calls them ‘vascular pipe-cleaners’, saying the antioxidant they contain – resveratrol, which occurs naturally in grapes – helps to keep blood vessels free of fatty deposits.

“Dr Norrie said yesterday that while the positive effects of moderate wine consumption had long been documented, ‘the inclusion of such large quantities of this beneficial antioxidant is very good news for wine drinkers’.” More here…

Cheers to that…!!!