The Benefits

Forget the apple, try a glass of Dry Creek Valley Syrah instead. In 1991, 60 Minutes aired a television program called the French Paradox that caused a commotion in both the health and wine industries. Ever since then, the wine industry has promoted wine for its health benefits and the medical community has been trying to validate any health benefits to drinking wine, particularly red wine.

In a nutshell, the French Paradox is that red wine consumed on a regular basis may decrease coronary heart disease (CHD). And as anyone who has ever eaten a flaky, melt-in-your-mouth Parisian croissant can attest, the French don't skimp on their butter and they have never found a sauce that couldn't use a tad more of it. As obese as Americans are known to be, the slimmer French consume a significantly higher amount of butter, cheese, and other foods with saturated fats than Americans. Logically, the Gallic folks on the east end of the Chunnel should be clutching their chests and dropping like flies. Yet statistically, the French have a significantly lower incidence of heart disease fatalities. This noted paradox supposed that the mitigating factor in reducing heart disease was the imbibement of red wine.

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Well, Vive la France! -- Gallo and Mondavi couldn't have dreamed up a better marketing ploy, and red wine consumption spiked upwards. The program also spurred medical research to verify or deny wine's health benefit claims. In the process, over the next two decades, scientific evidence has indicated that red wine, and to a lesser degree white wine and beer, offered some health benefits with the emphatic proviso that alcoholic...