... You'd think it would have been mentioned by now, by some wine taster or another ...
"Ah, yes, a rather wooden palette, and a stuffy nose, but a remarkably close finish... Oh, and a distinct overtone of the key ingredient, resveratrol..."
Scientists at the Sirtris Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts ... have located chemicals that mimic resveratrol, the key ingredient in red wine. ...Previous studies on the positive effects of the chemical resversatrol found in red wine find that it acts as protection against fatty diets and resultant cell degeneration that occurs in the aging process. The main problem with resversatrol is that it takes a large amount of the chemical for humans or animals to appreciate the effect.
Oh, so what they are saying is that we can stop drinking the actual wine and just take a pill. Or maybe an injections. Fine. I think I'll stick with the wine...
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Funny, I thought the "key ingredient" in red wine was the ~12% alcohol, followed perhaps by stuff like tannins (or whatever it is that colours it and gives it that "edge" to the tongue).
Silly me.
You mean the "key ingredient" isn't grape juice? What kind of scam is Nickel and Nickel trying to pull by selling me those single vineyard cabs?
Yup,
they have mentioned it before in their original offering slides when going IPO:
http://www.revgenetics.com/sirtris.htm
Check out Slide 23 on the webpage. They are testing 2.5 grams and 5 Grams... thats equivalent to hundreds of glasses of wine...
Anthony