Category: wine
Posts having anything to do with Wine.
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Wine Harvest Report 2014-Part 1-Wine Time TV
Hey Winos!
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Maryland Wines
Maryland is well known for the Chesapeake Bay, great seafood, its sports teams, racehorses, and its beer. But if you havenʼt tasted the fruit of its vineyards, you havenʼt yet met the full bodied Maryland. From cooperative wineries on the Eastern Shore to the Western Maryland mountain varietals, Marylanders have been celebrating in good taste for many a year. With over sixty wineries serving over four hundred wines annually, the Free State has been winning international awards and engaging the palates of natives and visitors alike, while also enjoying a brisk export business in the bargain.
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Happy New Year World!
Hello and welcome back! It’s been about a year since I’ve hung out around here and I was surprised that I was away so long. My beer blog seems to have dominated 2011! Doh! TRAITOR! LOL!
Anyway, I’m going to try and find an interesting and entertaining way to get back in to Wine but I don’t know when that’s going to be, so don’t hold your breath. Just hold your spot on the guest list by subscribing to the blog and you’ll be the first to know when the Wino articles and juices start flowing again!
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The Grape Skin Extract That Might Save Your Life
Kamary Phillips • Indie Wino
By Thomas Sinclair & Kamary PhillipsIt’s no secret that grape skin extract contains an incredible anti-oxidant, called Resveratrol. So, it almost goes without saying, because it’s pretty logical, that its highest concentration is found in red wine. Now, with that in mind, there’s no more delectable way to get your daily “anti-oxidant dose” as in drinking a glass of red wine, right?! Well, maybe. Read on.
Okay, I know some of you are wondering what the hell an anti-oxidant is and what it’s good for. I know because I was just like you before I wrote this, LOL! So, for the record;
An antioxidant is a molecule capable of inhibiting the oxidation of other molecules.
And what good is all that, you might ask? Well, inhibiting molecules is essentially a way to influence good health and life longevity. That’s all. 🙂 The 60 MINUTES video below is a great watch, however focuses on a particular company pioneering this field.
Drinking red wine daily is a good thing. Yeah, sure–in moderation. There are a number of scientific and cultural studies supporting that frequent wine drinking (a glass a day) has positive health benefits. Europeans have known this for decades, with France leading the way statistically, in terms of healthy citizens. Wine drinking is an important part of the French culture and they have far fewer cases of heart disease and diabetes as the United States.
In our bodies, one of the bad proteins which causes atherosclerosis (heart disease) is called Endothelin-1. Scientific research has proven that consuming red wine stops this protein from developing, or reduces its presence if developed already. One particular study conducted with red wine consumption, saw that in 68% of participants there was a reduction in the development of that naughty Endothelin-1.
Grape Skins – Great Source Of Anti-Oxidants Grape skins are filled to the brim with plant polyphenols and polyphenols are naturally produced by the grape to protect them from disease and this is what they do for us when they are consumed. Everything in moderation is the key, and only one glass a day should be consumed, although some will inevitably drink more. That’s a Wino for ya, ha! But if for some reason you are unable to drink red wine at all (and the point of living would be…?), it is available in supplement form.
Go ahead and watch the clip to learn far more than I can pass on in this article. At any rate, drink a glass of wine a day. What the hell, you’ve got nothing to lose and quite possibly more than just great taste and a good buzz to gain.
Wine on.
