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Article: Rosy days ahead for white wine fans
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- June 29, 2008
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IT MAY not be as good as turning water into wine, but it comes
close: scientists have discovered a way of making white wine as
healthy as red.
Making red wine involves leaving the skins on the grapes while
they ferment, which gives the drink both its colour and the
medicinal qualities that help to combat heart disease and other
conditions. Health-promoting plant chemicals called polyphenols have
helped boost sales of red worldwide.
But the reputation of white wines - in which the skins and the
polyphenols are removed from the mix straight after pressing - has
suffered by comparison.
Scientists in Israel have spent a decade perfecting a white wine
that contains similar amounts of ...