Health Benefits of Fruit Wines
A recent study at the University of Guelph shows that fruit wines are low in headache-causing histamines. So you may be able to enjoy fruit wines if you are allergic to grape wines (especially oak aged Whites and Reds). Fruit wines are also high in antioxidant capacity and minerals, resveritrol (the antioxidant, anti-cancer and cholesterol lowering compound found in red wine), and catechins (a heart protection compound).

Wine has been consumed for centuries as an integral part of every day life. But, instead of approaching wine as a part of everyday life, a glass with lunch or dinner, we have placed it on a gilded pedestal and called it an indulgence. We modern wine drinkers have managed to attach some kind of guilt to treating ourselves to something as extravagant as wine. Get over it. It's fruit juice after all. Really good fruit juice, but fruit juice nonetheless. And studies have shown, something our forefathers already knew (including Hippocrates) that the glass of wine you have with your dinner is actually good for you.

Let's start at the top
Teeth Yes, wine can stain, but good oral hygiene will help keep stains from setting in and making you look like a zombie. Studies have shown that certain components in wine can help prevent inflammatory periodontal disease or periodontitis. Periodontitis is a progressive infectious disease caused by certain bacteria that affect the gums and bone surrounding the teeth. In the worst case scenario tooth loss can occur. However the anti-oxidant phenolic compounds in wine can help alleviate these disease causing bacteria.

Effects of a High Calorie Diet
If you eat the cheese, make sure to drink the wine! Resveratrol-Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging have found that a natural substance found in wine called resveratrol can help offset some of the negative effects of a high-calorie diet. Perhaps giving us insight to the maddening reason why French women rarely get fat! The study placed two groups of mice on a high-fat diet giving one group a large daily dose of resveratrol and the other group none. Results were striking. The group of mice that did not receive any resveratrol gained weight but also quickly began showing signs of diabetes and enlarged livers. The group of mice that were given the resveratrol also gained weight but they maintained a normal liver size, avoided the onset of diabetes and lived months longer (and for a mouse this a long, long time!!!).

Heart
Many studies suggest that a moderate amount of wine, one glass per day for women and two glasses per day for men (no, life is not fair ladies) can help prevent the chances of blood clots, help reduce blood vessel damage caused by fatty deposits and increase HDL (the good cholesterol). People from the Mediterranean region whose diet includes, among other things, the regular consumption of red wine have been found to have a lower risk of heart disease.

Cholesterol and Vitamins
There are benefits to drinking both fruit or grape wine since they contain a high level of those all important anti-oxidants. Both fruit and grape wines increase HDL and are good at keeping LDL (the bad cholesterol) at bay while reducing the clotting of blood which can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
What about those Vitamins..?
Yes there are trace amounts of vitamins in that glass of wine:Vitamin B1 (Thaiamin), Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) and Vitamin B3 (Niacin). Hey, I'll take them where I can get them! Who says they have to come in a pill!!

Wine and Sex
It seems difficult to find any solid statistics on whether or not wine can play a beneficial part in your sex life, but wine is romantic, no research needed there. And, if wine leads to romance, and romance leads to love and companionship well that seems pretty healthy for us.