Wine Saver

If you like wine, but don’t want to finish the entire bottle each time you open it, check out the 3-botle wine saver. I have fiddled around with several different type of caps and corks, but none of them really seem to prolong the life of a bottle of wine once it has been opened. The reason is because the wine comes into contact with oxygen. If you want to prolong the shelf-life of wine, you have to remove the oxygen. That is what the wine saver does. It replaces the dispensed wine with argon, an inert gas that does not interact with the wine.

Red Wine May Slow Aging

Red Wine Lover, originally uploaded by LollyKnit.

Studies now show what I have believed for some time…

Red wine may slow aging. But stay tuned, because I think that you’ll see additional studies in the near future that show Vodka to enhance everyone’s appearance!

This is from the New York Times. I’ll be doing some additional research on my own and report back to you in twenty years to let you know how things are going. You may want to bookmark this site.

Here’s the link
“Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs.

The study is based on dosing mice with resveratrol, an ingredient of some red wines. Some scientists are already taking resveratrol in capsule form, but others believe it is far too early to take the drug, especially using wine as its source, until there is better data on its safety and effectiveness.

The report is part of a new wave of interest in drugs that may enhance longevity. On Monday, Sirtris, a startup founded in 2004 to develop drugs with the same effects as resveratrol, completed its sale to GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million.

Sirtris is seeking to develop drugs that activate protein agents known in people as sirtuins.

“The upside is so huge that if we are right, the company that dominates the sirtuin space could dominate the pharmaceutical industry and change medicine,” Dr. David Sinclair of the Harvard Medical School, a co-founder of the company, said Tuesday.

Serious scientists have long derided the idea of life-extending elixirs, but the door has now been opened to drugs that exploit an ancient biological survival mechanism, that of switching the body’s resources from fertility to tissue maintenance. The improved tissue maintenance seems to extend life by cutting down on the degenerative diseases of aging.

Top 10 French Wines

Although the euro is working against us, I have found myself turning more and more to French wines in the past few months. Listed here are 10 that I have particularly enjoyed.

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