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Wine drinkers rejoice! An Australian doctor claims to have produced the world’s healthiest wine. Dr Philip Norrie who is based in Sydney Australia, claims to have developed a wine with resveratrol levels 100 times greater than those found traditionally. Resveratrol is a compound which is found naturally in the skin of grapes and is mainly responsible for the medicinal properties of wine and its claims to lower chances of a heart attack. Resveratrol helps maintain blood flow to the arteries by cleaning fatty deposits called atherosclerotic plaque that have a tendency to stick to the arteries and block them. A tasteless and odorless compound, which doesn’t affect the bouquet or the flavour of the wine. Resveratrol effectively helps clean the arteries as you drink the wine.

Currently two wines are being marketed by Dr Norrie; a chardonnay and a shiraz. The wines available in the Australian market under the name of “Wine Doctor” are endowed with resveratrol levels of 100 mg/L. This is about 70 times of that found in normal “whites” and about 15-20 times that of a normal “red”. Though certainly beneficial in the long run, Dr. Norrie stresses that benefits will only realized through “moderate consumption”.

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Australia’s wine industry might be pushed to make major cuts with the rising compulsion from major winemakers to reduce the number of existing wineries including significantly lessening overall production. Specifically, these leading winemakers want an approximate 60 percent cut on producer population alongside a 20 percent cut on actual wine production within ten years time.

These industry reforms were outlined in the recent Wine Industry Outlook Conference in Sydney, where there was also a push to reduce the number of wines sold in Australia by half, including the replacement of smaller wine producers with bigger ones.

The actual count on the pressing need for these industrial reforms is shown in the comparison that the average harvest for winemakers is as high as 1.9 million tons, compared to the less than 1.5 million ton demand on the products.

But discussions show that things are not as simple as producing less because authorities would still have to discern among Australia’s 170,000 ha of vines as to which should be cut down and retained. Nevertheless, this reform was meant to reduce the number of actual producers that are losing money annually.

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