Much research has been done over recent years into the positive effects of red wine on health and life expectancy. It is in our view best summarized in Roger Corder’s The Wine Diet, who explains the “French Paradox” - the fact that the French have lower rates of heart disease, cancer and a higher life expectancy despite eating a lot of saturated fat and smoking too much, above all in the South West region of France. This is explained by the Mediterranean-style diet, within which red wines rich in a particular type of polyphenol play a major role. The Wine Diet is available here.

There is plenty of information on dangers associated with drinking too much alchohol. Wine is no exception and so moderation is the key word. A couple of glasses of a typical alcohol content wine per day is a good rule of thumb and won’t do you any harm. Alcohol is actually beneficial to the human body in small quantities.

Read on for more detail on the various health benefits that the wines advertised on this site have to offer with respect to the following illnesses :

Heart Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease

Cancer