The Surprising Benefits of Wine

What you should be drinking to promote a healthy wine lifestyle. Turns out, if you stick to the moderate drinker lifestyle there are some major benefits.

Wine will make you skinny

Oak-aged wines may help with weight control

Some recent research says that the ellagic acid in wine helps reduce fatty liver (a leading cause of obesity). But, we can’t find ellagic acid in most of the wine. However, it does transfer into wine in the form of ellagitannin from oak barrels! The longer the exposure to oak, the more ellagic acid is dissolved into wine. So basically, drinking a glass of well-oaked wine may help reduce the affect fatty-liver has on health problems (like obesity).

Here you will find a wine aged in aok barrel:

Chateau Pesquie- Les Terrasses, AOC Ventoux, Rhone Valley, France, 2013, Red, ¥149