Best Selling Wine - History

Best Selling Wines: History - Wine was (like beer) known to be produced by the Babylonians about 5000BC and is one of the first known Biological engineering tasks, where the biological process of fermentation is used in a process.

Medical implications The health effects of wine (and alcohol in general) are the subject of considerable ongoing debate and study.

In the U.S., a boom in red wine consumption was touched off in the 1990s by 60 Minutes and other news reports on the French paradox.

It now seems clear that a glass of wine daily does reduce mortality for those over the age of 35 or so. Sadly, this effect tails off, and significantly larger amounts show a negative impact on mortality.

Compounds known as resveratrols are found in larger amounts in red wine, and there is some evidence that these are especially beneficial.

Wine marketers have responded to the demand for healthy wines by producing wines (both red and white) with elevated levels of resveratrol.

Other studies have concluded both that wine is the best form of alcohol to consume, and alternately that the only important ingredient is ethanol.