"Wine should be considered as a healthy product that forms part of a healthy diet, and not as a medicine".
Dr Jean - Claude Ruf, OIV nutrition and health unit

"Wine acts as an antioxidant, in the same way as fruit and vegetables".
Dr Pierre-Louis Teissedre, Faculty of Pharmacy, Montpellier

"The antioxidant potential of the polyphenols in wine is a thousand times more powerful than vitamin A ".
Michel Bourzeix INRA Narbonne

"The effects on health are better when wine is enjoyed in moderation with meals".
Pierre-Louis Teissedre

The Mediterranean diet led to a 70% reduction in mortality compared to an ordinary diet, in the Lyon study".
Dr Serge Renaud INSERM Bordeaux

"Most epidemiological research agrees in saying that wine gives greater protection against cardiovascular disease compared to other alcoholic drinks"
Dr Jean-Claude Ruf

"Two or three glasses of wine a day reduce mortality by 30% across the range of major diseases”
Dr Serge Renaud

"Irregular consumption brings no beneficial effects. We should favour moderate daily consumption".
Dr Morten Gronbaek , Institute of preventive medicine, Copenhagen.

"Wine is the healthiest and most hygienic of drinks".
Louis Pasteur