Wine and Wellness
Salud ! Is your preference for red or white wine? A mentioned in our first blog post we are located in Marlborough , the hub of New Zealand wine making, especially Sauvignon blanc. Did you know that the earliest evidence of fermented grape and rice as a beverage comes from ancient China around 7000 BC while the earliest archaeological evidence of wine fermentation is in Georgia from around 6000 BC? According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Museum's Biomolecular Archaeology Project , in the early days it seems the production of beer, mead and wine wasn't separated. Across history wine mixed with herbs was consumed for its medicinal properties or incorporated into religious ceremony due to its ability to alter consciousness. Wine might be the oldest of all medicine . Historically it has been utilized as an analgesic, antiseptic, menstruum (solvent), soporific (sedative), water purifier and social lubricant. More recently, research on wine’s...