Hi I want to start drinking wine with dinner for the health benefits, but I'm not a real fan of the taste. Can someone suggest something thats cheap and mild? Thanks.
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Hi I want to start drinking wine with dinner for the health benefits, but I'm not a real fan of the taste. Can someone suggest something thats cheap and mild? Thanks.
What do you consider 'cheap'? If you have never had a well-made wine with food, you may not have actually understood what wine is all about. I suggest you get a bottle of a wine called 'Dolcetto' from northern Italy, in the region named 'Piedmont'. It will cost between $12-25 depending on the producer, the production commune, and the state in which you live. There are many good producers of Dolcetto, and it is made in seven different communes (Acqui, Alba, Asti, Diano d'Alba, Dogliani, Ovada, and Langhe Monregalesi). Dolcetto di'Asti and Dolcetto d'Alba should be available in almost any good wine shop. Those are the ones to look for. Dolcetto di Dogliani is exceptionally good, but it is not widely available. The leading producer is (Quinto) Chionetti.
Dolcetto is a wine that is very easy to like.
Both cheap and mild are in the eye of the beholder. :)
Two possibilities: Start in your local store, try Merlot or Shiraz wines in your budget. While both Merlot and Syrah (Shiraz) can make big powerful reds, on the low end they tend to light.
Try a hybrid-grape blend such as Taylor Lake Country red. They tend to be light and a little sweet, and I believe lambrusca and hybrid grapes have higher levels of resveratrol. If still too much for you, try diluting with water or seltzer.
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You really have to try a few wines and see what you like. Everyones different. Try finding a wine bar/store in your area that will allow you to taste a variety of wines.
For someone who doesn't like the taste of wine, but wants the health benefits it would be a disservice to recommend any wine at all. The core health benefit comes from the polyphenols in the skins, and that means the real benefits only come from intense, bitter reds.
My personal recommendation would be to drink tea, which also has significant amounts of polyphenols. Leave those big syrahs and barolos to those of us who love them ;)
Keith Wallace The Wine School of Philadelphia
But if resveratrol is the main source of the health benefits, as is seeming more and more likely these days, the wines with the highest resveratrol content are Pinot Noirs and Chiantis, neither known for their intense bitterness.
But tea has little to no resveratrol (see the links I provided in the recent thread on resveratrol). And who says tea isn't bitter? ;-)
Mark Lipton
Resveratrol tablets.
I think Vilco's humorous point is, you don't drink for health reasons. Overall, drinking wine is probably not so good for you anyhow.
Seriously, resveratrol tablets will not contain the many noxious things that you will ingest by drinking cheap mild wines. If you drink good wine for pleasure, you might get some collateral benefits from certain components of wine. Or it might kill you. ;-)
Exactly.
Try real red grape Juice.
It's been shown that unfermented grape juice contains next to no resveratrol. So it's either wine or resveratrol tablets.
Mark Lipton
Mark:
Good point, Mark
I was not referring to resveratrol but to the health benefits in general--this thread did seem to change focus from the original posters question. Resveratrol (3,5,4prime-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is one of the main polyphenols in wine, and derived from the skins of grapes.
I am not familiar with any studies that show overall levels of different red varietals. Could you send them my way?
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