Red, red wine: Health pros and cons

Canada's love affair with fermented grape juice really began taking off in the late 1990s, when wine accounted for 21 per cent of sales of all alcoholic beverages across the country. Since then, market share for beer and spirits has been declining while wine's popularity has been increasing. It now accounts for 28 per cent of the alcoholic beverage market. The wine tide appears to have turned in the late 1990s when research about red wine's potential health benefits began to surface. The benefits of red wine appear to be linked to the presence of resveratrol, melatonin and flavinoids.

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