Wine News

Spanish scientists who carried out a study on 4,000 volunteers concluded that drinking wine, especially red, can stop people from developing colds. Experts at five universities found that people who drank more than two glasses of red wine a day had 44% fewer colds than those who didn't. The study found that beers and spirits did not have the same protective effect as red wine.

Professor Ron Eccles, director of the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University, says red wine could well help keep colds at bay. "Red wine is an anti-oxidant, and it could possibly help dampen cold symptoms like vitamin C does."

Colds are thought to affect 930,000 people in the UK on any one day, costing £2.8 billion in lost wages and medical expenses annually. An average person spends two to three years of their life with a cold, yet there is still no cure.