Wine Is Healthy

Can dreams come true? You have been plagued by diabetes or arthritis for some time. Unlike your libido, your blood pressure only knows one direction: steeply upwards, even though you are completely relaxed. Your eyes can no longer make out the individual buttons on the remote control, and you keep forgetting who your husband or wife is? In an advertisement, these questions would discreetly lead you towards a pharmaceutical company; usually, you see double when looking at the person asking them, which brings us back to the eyes.

Wine as a healthy food

Well, you are then supposed to swallow bulky pills and disgusting liquids, or, if you really mean business, reach for green smoothies. Perhaps you will be reincarnated as a rabbit in your next life. But couldn't life be simpler and more enjoyable?

Hans-Ulrich Grimm, an author and food journalist whom I greatly admire, has surprised me once again. I know them all, from “The Soup Lies” and “Deadly Hamburgers” to “Food War”; I have positively devoured all his books. With “Wine Is Healthy”, he has produced a “fine drop”.

The effects of wine on the human body

The wonderful effects of a fine drop will certainly not have escaped the readers who feel at home on this wine website. But perhaps you can still discover a few closely guarded secrets in this book.

Oh yes, and if your doctor once again tries to encourage you to abstain, take the book, turn to Chapter 2, and be a little forgiving towards him. Nutritional medicine is not at the forefront of medical studies.

The health benefits range from protecting the heart and guarding against Alzheimer's and dementia to counteracting normal blood pressure and depression, helping against viruses and bacteria, and so on and so forth.

Trace elements and enzymes from wine

You could actually skip the salad with a good meal, as this contains more vitamins, minerals and trace elements, as well as polyphenols, resveratrol and many other health-promoting substances.

Red wine and white wine balance each other out when you alternate between them. Quite apart from the relaxing role of alcohol, joy and courage take over in convivial company; worries can wait until tomorrow. Even the great military commanders gave their soldiers a litre of wine every day before sending them into battle, so the boss could score points back home.

Unfortunately, there is bad news here for lovers of beer and spirits. Unlike wine, abstaining from these does the body more good. 

The 2021 wine vintage

And what about the dose? All I will say is: daily! Please read up on the rest and put it to the test yourself. 

I would also like to recommend the Chardonnay diet in Chapter 4 to women. It really does keep everything young and fresh. 

With that in mind, I wish all winemakers an outstanding 2021 vintage and would like to close with these words: "You may not be able to eat wisdom by the spoonful, but perhaps you can drink it by the glass”.

Cheers