Healthiest. Wine. Ever.

An Australian doctor and former wine-maker has created what he's calling the most healthy wine in the world. I've talked at length on this blog about the chemical resveratrol, the heart-healthy ingredient found in grape skins and thus in red wine. This doctor, Philip Norrie, has created a way to extract that chemical directly from the grapes, then infuse his wine with it. The result is a "vascular pipe cleaner" with nearly 300 times as much reveratrol. The wine tastes the same, ages the same and drinks the same . . . it's just a whole lot better for you.

The good doctor is doing his best to get the wine out there. According to an article in The Times Online:

""I have wanted to invent the ultimate preventative medicine," he said. "Not only does this reduce your risk of heart attack, but you can drink less of it to get the same effect."
Over the last three years, Dr Norrie, an expert on the links between wine and health, has patented a method of extracting the anti-oxidant from the skin of red and white grapes and concentrating it before returning it to the wine in the bottling process. 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. ""