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By Bill Sardi from LewRockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi96.html "Venturing into the subject of how to buy wine can be treacherous. But here’s my take on wine buying. Wine should be purchased for its medicinal value as well as its bouquet, dryness or taste. Wine is the world’s best medicine. There is no pharmaceutical drug that can do what wine does. Wine is an antibiotic, an anti-aging beverage, a heart tonic, a brain booster, a weight control aid, a stomach settler, a sleeping aid, and much more. Its primary medicinal properties emanate from its mix of polyphenols (resveratrol, quercetin, catechin, kaempferol, gallic acid, ferulic acid) that are concentrated in fermented wine (the alcohol serves to extract these molecules from grape skin) so they are 1000-fold more concentrated than grape juice. The corked, dark glass bottle serves to preserve these otherwise perishable molecules. Not all bottles of red wine deliver the promised health benefits. Only the dark aged red wines provide the full 60 milligrams of polyphenols per 5-ounce glass that deliver these health benefits. Among the best dark reds are wines made from a variety of grapes called malbec. The darkest, richest of these come from the Mendoza region of Argentina and can be purchased for as little as $10 per bottle online or at some stores like Trader Joe’s (I even found a malbec red for $2.99 at Trader Joe’s). Remember, "wine in moderation." Over-imbibe and the health benefits disappear."