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Dr Roger Corder’s Book The Wine Diet was a great hit last year, expounding the virtues of the reds wines of South West France, particularly Madiran AC, as being good for your health because they contain high levels of procyanidins which can reduce the risk of heart attacks.
He writes in the Telegraph (20 July 2007); “…. moderate drinkers suffer lower rates of heart disease, but only those people who limit themselves to two or three small glasses (around 125 ml) a day with food can be assured of these preventive benefits…..It is better to drink small amounts of wine everyday than to drink only occasionally. But it’s also healthier to drink your wine with food, not without.”
To be honest I cannot imagine that you would really want to drink a Madiran or Cahors without food, as these wines are based on relatively tannic grape varities as Tannat and Malbec. These are wines to be savoured not glugged!
Our favourite remains the Gold Medal-winning Madiran AC Cuvée Charles de Batz from Domaine Berthoumieu available in the UK from Noel Young Wines