'Wine Lesson' by Sally Gudgeon, from Lifestyle - Sun-Herald magazine Nov 2007.
It's good to have a great wine with dinner occasionally.
'Pink wines don't cellar so enjoy them while they're fresh and young, within a year of vintage. If you're a red wine drinker not keen on chilled whites, try a chilled rose during the warmer months. They are lighter versions of the red grape from which they are made. Roses made from a mixture of red and white grapes do exist but the best roses are made from red grapes, by the skin contact method. This means the grapes are crushed and the skins are kept in contact with the juice briefly to extract colour. The deeper the colour of the rose, the longer the skin contact and the more tannins. Most roses are unsoaked. They go with a wide range of foods from highly spiced dishes to pink roast lamb.'
Whilst drinking alcohol is acceptable by most people these days, Mannatech Inc and Sam Caster the founder, have discovered glyconutrients that may protect the cells damaged by alcohol. Glyconutrients are necessary for cell-to-cell communication and early research suggests that by adding glyconutrients to the human diet there is an increase in production in one's bone marrow stem cell production.
