Red wine may not be as good for you as hoped, say scientits who have studied the drink's ingredient that is supported to confer good health. The team tracked the health of nearly 800 villagers from the chanti region of italy to red he their local tipple had any discernbale impact. They found no proof that the wine ingredient resveratrol stop heart disease or prolongs life. experts say more research is needed to get a definitive answer.

French Paradox
Many studies have sought to explain why there is a low incidence of heart disease in france, despite many of its inhabitants eating a high-eat diet.

Some Put It Down To Moderate Drinking Of Re Wine.
studies have shown that consumption of see wine, dark chocolate and berrise reduces inflammation, leading researchers to speculate that their common ingredient resveratrol, explain why. But prof Richard semba, of the john hopkins university school of medicine, and colleagues found on evidence for this.
they chose two small town in Tuscany as their test ground,

and 783 elderly people who were living there agreed to take part in their investigation.
the volunters gave details about their daily diet as well as urine samples for measurement of their resveratrol intake.
During the nine year of the study, 268 of the men and woman died, 174 developd heart disease and 34 got cancer. But urinary resveratrol was not linked with death risk. Nor was it associated with any markers inflamation in the blood, the researchers report in jama internal medicine. Prof semba said: "the thinking was that certain foods are good for you because they contain resveratrol. We didn't find that at all."The story of resveratrol turns out to be another case where you get a lot of hype about health benefit of drinking wine or eating dark chocolate or berries, if they are there must come from other shared ingredients.And its not clear how much you might need to eat or drink. "thse are complex foods and all we really know from our study is that the benefits are probably not due to resveratrol"

This is news to me, I love red wine. I need to research on this before making a decision, op thanks all the same for bringing this to our attention.