The world’s first resveratrol-enhanced wines (R.E.W.) have been launched in Australia under The Wine Doctor label.

These wines contain up to 100 times more of the powerful anti-oxidant resveratrol than is found naturally in wine. Resveratrol is the focus of multi-million dollar research programs aimed at developing anti-ageing medicines.The first two R.E.W. wines are a 2006 Shiraz and a 2008 Chardonnay (unwooded), both from South Australia’s McLaren Vale region. The added antioxidant is tasteless and odourless.

Sydney medical practitioner and wine historian Dr Philip Norrie has developed and patented a method of adding resveratrol to wine at the time of bottling. Dr Norrie, himself known as ‘The Wine Doctor’, has long been an advocate of the health benefits of moderate wine consumption.

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The normal resveratrol content of wine is 1-2 milligrams per litre (whites) and 4-6 mg/l (reds). The resveratrol content of both The Wine Doctor wines has been boosted to 100 mg/l, giving the white wine the same content level as the red. This means that for the first time white wine lovers can now achieve the same level of potential benefit from moderate wine consumption as red wine drinkers.

A proportion of revenue from the sale of resveratrol-enhanced wines in Australia will be donated to the Australian Atherosclerosis Society, which funds research into the causes and prevention of vascular disease.

The Wine Doctor wines are currently available only in Australia.

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