Drinking red wine besides tasting really good has a few benefits. Wine drinkers have a 34 percent lower mortality rate than beer drinkers, moderate drinkers suffering from high blood pressure are 30 percent less likely to have a heart attack than nondrinkers. Red-wine tannins contain procyanidins, which protect against heart disease. Wines from Sardinia and southwest France have more procyanidins ...than other wines. Moderate drinkers have 30 percent less risk than nondrinkers of developing type 2 diabetes. The possibility of suffering a blood clot–related stroke drops by about 50 percent . Moderate drinkers are 32 percent less likely to get cataracts than nondrinkers; those who consume wine are 43 percent less likely to develop cataracts than those drinking mainly beer. Moderate consumption of wine (especially red) cuts the risk of colon cancer by 45 percent.
