An Australian doctor says he has created the world’s healthiest wine, which cleans your blood vessels and reduces the risk of heart attack as you drink it. Dr Philip Norrie, a Sydney GP and former wine-maker has produced a wine with 100 times the amount of resveratrol, the antioxidant credited with giving wine its health giving properties, as normal wines.
Resveratrol, found in the skin of grapes, is widely known to combat heart disease but is usually found in relatively small quantities in wine – between 3 and 6 milligrams per litre in red wine, and just one milligram per litre in white wine. High levels of the odourless, tasteless anti-oxidant are the key to the potential benefits of the ‘wonder-wine’ which would effectively act as a ‘vascular pipe-cleaner”
I have wanted to invent the ultimate preventative medicine. Not only does this reduce your risk of heart attack, but you can drink less of it to get the same effect.
While the positive effects of moderate wine consumption have long been documented, the inclusion of such large quantities of this beneficial anti-oxidant is very good news for wine drinkers – Dr Philip Norrie
He is now producing both a Chardonnay and a Shiraz, each with 100mg/L of resveratrol per bottle – as much as is contained in 70 to 100 bottles of standard white wine or 15 to 20 bottles of standard red. Despite numerous previous attempts by wine makers to increase the amount of resveratrol in wine, this is the first time such a high concentration has been achieved.
Studies have strongly suggested that consumption of wine rich in resveratrol can lessen cardio-vascular disease, heart attack and stroke – Professor David Colquhoun, cardiologist at the University of Queensland
Not sure when the ‘pipe-cleaning’ wine will be ready for mass consumption – but I will keep you informed. The additional healthy properties of enhancing omega-3 has also recently been published. The study [IMMIDIET] included 1,604 adults between the ages of 26 and 65 from Italy, Belgium and England. Because people in the three nations have substantially different drinking and eating habits, the researchers were able to zero in on the effects of different types of alcohol on omega-3 levels. [American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, January 2009] Other lab research has suggested that moderate amounts of wine, or other types of alcohol, may also change the body’s metabolism of omega-3 fatty acids.
Although the mechanisms are not completely defined, there was some evidence that alcohol intake might influence the metabolism of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids, as omega-3. That is exactly what we found in our population study. People drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, one drink a day for women and two for men, had higher concentration of omega-3 fatty acids in plasma and red blood cells independently of their fish intake – Romina di Giuseppe
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