I was speaking with an industry contact today about wine’s health benefits and resveratrol in particular. And amongst the things that came up were the scientists working on a pill form and how many glasses it is said humans need to drink to reap the health benefits of resveratrol from wine (more than is humanly possible).
So I should not have been shocked to receive the article today (via the good folks at Wine Spectator online) about wineries developing wines with high doses (artificially added) of resveratrol.
For more details and all the technical mumbo jumbo read the article.
IN short, there is already a doctor/winemaker in Australia who says he “takes the leftover grapes after pressing and extracts residual resveratrol and concentrates it into a powder. The powder is then added to the wine before bottling. (He) says the process, for which he holds a patent, does not change the wine’s color, clarity, nose or taste.” Pretty wild stuff…
Apparently his concoction has 12 to 25 times more milligrams per liter of resveratrol than a regular bottle of wine.
The article goes on to theorize about whether this really does provide extra health benefits or if it is just a marketing ploy. Who knows, but I’ll bet ya some wealthy company/individual buys this guy out for MEGA BUCKS.
Happy HEALTHY & LONG LIVING Wine Tasting!
WTG
Tags: Resveratrol
That is great that there is a wine with an increased amount of this Resveratrol compound. The issue that I have, is that you need a larger amount in order to product quality results. Doctor Sinclair of Sirtris had stated in many different reports that a stock bottle of red wine has 1/1000th the dosage that is recommend through their clinical studies.
At the amount that these bottles have, you would still have to drink 40-80 bottles, causing a blackout halfway through self medication.
what we don’t know is whether or not there is a limit to how much resveratrol the human body can take. Dr. Sinclair has spent most of his time ramping up the level to see how the lab mice will repsond, and not much on the potential harmful effects of too much. Just like many vitamins there is a threshhold, otherwise things like gallstones can appear.
My guess is that the Aussie Doctor is taking us to the correct level of resveratrol, and via a bio-active source rather than a pill form of which Dr. Sinlcair has admitted cannot be exposed to light or other contaminants.
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