5 reasons why you should have a glass of wine tonight

Do you know that wine is the oldest form of medicine, it helps to keep the the heart healthy by increasing the HDL cholesterol and helps in reducing the weight loss.

Above video list some of the important benefits of drinking wine for the health and might bring you closer to the glass of wine tonight!

Wine Quote - Wine is like the incarnation

Why women drink wine less frequently than men?

How much you drink can turn out to be both good and bad for your health! A woman is advised to take no more than one glass a day. On the other hand, a man is at more freedom on the amount of alcohol. So, one might ask the question what makes a man drink more amount of alcohol? The answer to this question may lie in our body composition.

The body composition of humans-beings is such that woman has less body water in comparison to a man. When a woman consumes alcohol, they tend to have a higher blood-alcohol content. The reason for this being alcohol is highly water-soluble, so more body water means it tends to get easily dissolved preventing the blood-alcohol levels of the body to drastically increase.

Another factor why men can gulp more drinks is an enzyme which is responsible for breaking alcohol in the stomach called alcohol dehydrogenase. In a woman’s body, these enzymes are low in number which does not allow complete alcohol breakdown to take place before it enters the bloodstream explaining why women tend to get intoxicated more quickly than men.

Wine in moderation can have various benefits to a woman. There are studies to show that it helps in increasing bone density, helpful for women suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS). Studies also pinpoint that wine helps during arthritis and help in maintaining good brain health.

For all those who want to be more health-conscious on the amount of alcohol they want to put in their bodies, there are low alcohol and medium alcohol wines on the market. These wines have lower levels of alcohols making them a good choice for easy drinking.

When wine is at fault?

Have you ever felt strange sensation during sniffing or after the first sip of wine? If you noticed vinegar or nail polish remover like aromas than there is a very good chance that the wine has gone bad. Technically, it is called wine fault.

The important thing to note is that the wine has faults in it and to a certain degree they are good.

However, exceeding the limit that makes the wine unpleasant and even in some cases undrinkable.

Cause of Wine Fault

So, what causes faults in the wine? There are many reasons that a wine can develop wine faults. Some of the major ones are - unhygienic conditions in the winery, use of dirty barrels for storing, aging in barrels for an extended period, use of low-quality corks or use of an excessive or insufficient amount of sulphur during winemaking or also over-extending the maceration period.

But not only this, wine can also develop faults after the wine has been bottled. It is advised to properly store the wine away from excessive heat and temperature fluctuations.

Detecting Wine Fault

It can be determined through close examination of the wine both visually and through giving it a sniff . For example, smell of burnt matchsticks indicates the overuse sulphur dioxide present in the wine or smell of vinegar can indicate the presence of acetic acid bacteria in the wine

There are also visual cues also that can tell the wine is not in best of shape. Wine with unusual color and that can be due to excessive levels of a copper and protein that should have been removed during the filtering process. If the wine is brown in color but is still young 1-2 years old, it is because of excessive oxidation that the wine has undergone.

So, the next time the wine smell of band-aids or burnt rubber or cooked cabbage, you know you have come across a faulty wine.

Have you come across bad wine before? What was it like ? You can share your experience in the comments below...

Wine Quote - Thinking person's drink

Books pair wonderfully well with wine. And if it is a lazy Sunday and you have nothing else to do, sipping some wine won't do any harm.

Even better reading some light novel with a wine glass besides you, what more you can ask for... making wine truely a thinking person's health drink.

Penfolds wines being copycatted!!

Treasury Wines is the owner of some of the big names of Australia such as Penfolds, Wynns, T’Gallant and Wolf Blass and is currently exports to 100 + countries. The company has over 3500+ employees and over 14,000 hectares of vineyards in some of the prime regions of the world.

The company name was in news recently. The Penfolds products in China are being copycatted, exploiting the company brand name. For this, the company has also set up an internal investigation team.

The company is determined to weed out the operators and take strict legal action against the operators and legal proceedings are underway against one such operator – Rush Rich in Federal Court of Australia. According to the Treasury Wines legal team, Rush Rich also tried to infringe the Penfolds name by using the BEN FU trademark which is the Chinese letterings of Penfolds.

For Treasury wines, Asia is an important market with the first six months of 2017-18 witnessed 48 percent rise in profits from sales. The company booked a profit of $117 million during the same period

The Penfolds brand represents Australian wines in China in a big way and the company believes that such practices impact the brand Australia and that should be discouraged at all cost as it risks the reputation of quality exported Australian wines and also $5 billion Australian wine industry.