Wine is an alcoholic beverage made with the fermented juice of grapes.
Wine is also complex because we can influence this process in many different ways, allowing us to produce many different kinds of wines.
Technically, wine can be made with any fruit
(i.e. apples, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries ,cranberries, plums, etc) but most wines are made with wine grapes . Speaking of differences, the difference between wine and beer is that beer is made from fermenting brewed grains. So very simply, wine is made from fruit and beer is made from grains.
Wine is both simple and complex. Wine is simple because very little is needed to make wine it's created by a natural process that occurs all around us. So wine is simple, but we choose to make wine complex because simple isn't interesting enough.
blueberries, raspberries, strawberries
Gapes have become the standard for wines for two reasons.
First, there is an acid found in grapes but not other fruits which preserves the juice for decades or even centuries.
Second, there is a lot more sugar in grapes than in other fruits and this helps produce stronger wines because almost all the sugar is transformed into alcohol.
The goal of the study was to see if wine increased HDL cholesterol, the “good cholesterol,” which reduces the risk of Cardiovascular Disease. ... Wine consumption (red or white) in controlled moderation may assist those who exercise, but more research is needed.
wine improves brain function in older women. French researchers found that women over 50 who drank two or more glasses of wine daily were 2.5 times more likely to score in the top 10 per cent in tests.
Egypt dating to 2200 BC include recipes for wine based medicines, making wine the oldest documented man made medicine.