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The Wine Diet Customer Review: Wine Advise for Vascular Health
The ‘Wine Diet’ is an interesting and worthwhile addition to the multitude of diet books that abound nowadays. Diet books that are fairly often of dubious quality, but not this one. Prof. Roger Corder, an expert researcher in cardiovascular health in relation to wines, gives very practical advise on the best red wines to choose for vascular health effects. Of course wine consumption is needed in moderation (max. 1-2 glasses a day) and preferably with food.
His book is especially relevant for the prevention and treatment of the many modern chronic diseases with a strong endothelial dysfunction component of the vessels, like coronary heart disease, diabetes etc.
Corder recommends in particular the traditional Madiran wines in South-West France, which contain high amounts of polyphenols. These polyphenols powerfully stimulate the natural vasodilator Nitric Oxide (NO), essential for vascular health. There is also very sensible advise on other ‘Food for Health’ topics based on sound scientific research, like the dark chocolate and (unprocessed) cacao powder drink recommendation.

He has worthwhile things to say about longevity, but the claim that the people in the Madiran region have the best longevity record in France, because of their red wine consumption, is dubious as longevity is influenced by many different factors.
Furthermore, his opinion on the super polyphenol resveratrol is not completely up-to-date. Although resveratrol levels in general are very low in most red wines, this is not always true especially in the some Pinot Noir and Muscadine wines. More importantly new research has made clear that resveratrol cooperates with other polyphenols (e.g. quercetine) and is being metabolized to various active substances, resulting in health effects at lower levels than previously thought.
Nevertheless, this is a really good book with lots of practical advise and supported by an extensive list of research literature.
As a public physician in the prevention of chronic disease, I have no hesitation in recommending this book.

Customer Review: The Holy Grail is found!
The Wine Diet is the long awaited holy grail for wine drinkers who get put off by health warnings. Shame about that expression “in moderation” that casts a slight shadow on an otherwise encouraging green light to red wine drinking. He specifically mentions the tannat grape as having high scores, after having done concentrated research on the wines of Madiran in South West France, one of those Shangri La locations where longevity is attributed to the local wine.
Both Chateau Du C?dre (a specifically mentioned Cahors that scores a 4 on his health scale) and Iroul?guy (a tannat that my more um intuitive home laboratory can definitely give a similar rating to) are quaffed in frequent moderation round my table. This is a grape with character well worth checking out. He generally finds that the more mass produced wines come out less well.
I raise my red wine glass in moderation to Roger Corder. Just what the doctor ordered. Cheers!

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Growing Wine Grapes Customer Review: If you’re gonna plant a few grapes, read this book!
You could probably learn a lot from this little book even if you weren’t going to plant a few vines, but if you’re even thinking of growing grapes, this is a great little primer. It isn’t going to make you a viticulturist, but it will prepare you for what you’re about to get into. In the process, it will probably help you avoid more than a few mistakes.

The American Wine Society does select good authors. Each chapter is tightly written, adequately illustrated, and easily read and absorbed. Most are simply practical, as they should be. A couple border on being scholarly, which is a plus. Dr. John R. McGrew wrote six of the ten chapters. He’s no T. V. Munson, but he is a professional grape breeder and a darn good winemaker, too. You can take his word to the bank.

If you think you might like to plant a few vines out back, buy this book. Read it cover-to-cover and then read Jeff Cox’s From Vines to Wines. Long before the planting, you’ll be dreaming of future ! harvests and vintage wines.