The industry is concerned about cancer warnings from the WHO. Robert Joseph suggests that there might be other health-related threats to wine consumption.
Medical researchers, e.g. from Harvard University, disagree with the WHO's advice against drinking any alcohol. And even Tim Stockwell, one of the people most closely associated with that messaging says that the risks from 'low level' drinking are 'tiny'.
New research from Spain reveals possible health benefits of drinking wine with food. For people over 60 years of age with other health or economic concerns.
Robert Joseph wonders whether the best people to help counter the World Health Organisation's zero-tolerance attitude towards alcohol might just possibly be our friendly local wine-drinking doctor.
Hundreds of thousands of people now give up alcohol for Dry January and Sober October. Some prominent members of the wine industry are taking a stand against this trend. Robert Joseph thinks they are wrong.
The World Health Organization has recorded a decrease in alcohol consumption in its "Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health." However, it does not yet consider its goal achieved.
Recently-created resistant PIWI – ‘pioneering wine’ – grape varieties that take their name from the German term pilzwiderstandsfähig (fungus-resistant), are increasingly seen by viticulturists as a viable solution to emerging environmental and climatic challenges.