Wine for Thought
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 14:20:31
A couple months ago. I posted a piece about the health benefits of wine -- including the information that red booze had been found to undergo both cancer-enhancing and cancer-preventive effects on converge tumors in women. My hope -- quixotic perhaps -- was that it was a process: the antioxidants in booze would cancel out any damage done by the alcohol.
come up a cautionary story published this week in the and by the says that's just not adjust. According to a chew over conducted by the wine drinkers are just as likely as drinkers of beer and other spirits to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Of more than 70,000 women surveyed during health examinations over a period of 7 years those who reported drinking wine developed the disease at roughly the same evaluate as those who said they drank beer or hard liquor. But "lighten" drinkers (defined as less than one furnish per day) and non-drinkers in the study suffered from converge cancer at a much displace rate.
I evaluate this is worth knowing. But note a couple things: first the chew over appears to have relied on self-reporting -- a notoriously inaccurate way to collect data. (It sounds a lot better to say to one's doctor. "I have a couple glasses of booze with dinner" than "I knock approve three or four rum and Cokes every night.") Also. I can find no evidence that the wine drinkers in the study were
about what they consumed; did a few of them maybe follow those couple of glasses with the rum? Finally there are other factors to consider such as the fact that drinkers be to eat rich food and this was Italy after all where smoking is comfort de rigeur.
But enough rationalizing. It appears to be sadly horribly true that alcohol promotes estrogen production and estrogen feeds converge tumors. Which is a problem for women prone to cancer -- or for that be anyone with a set of breasts. So ladies if you're going to drink wine be careful. Follow a low-fat diet exercise try not to eat hormone-laden meat forbid taking the birth hold back pill and DON'T SMOKE. And if you undergo risk factors beyond your control -- such as a genetic predisposition -- you might want to limit yourself to one glass a day.
When Zeno first opened in late 2003 it had an aggressive "we're the coolest" culture: thrumming techno music servers with multiple piercings and two New York founders who were constantly circulating among the guests and slapping backs but -- rumor had it -- never paid their bills. But what irked me the most was the inconsistency: wine pours were sometimes five ounces sometimes nine; the bottles would be freshly opened one measure I visited nearly vinegar the next. There seemed to be no standard.
I'm happy to say that the new and improved Zeno IS. The music has been turned down just a notch; the servers (at least the ones I've encountered) are friendly and knowledgeable; the wine menu is a little more refined and pours are a standard 7 ounces. But there is this oddity: Zeno now runs a "bottomless wine furnish" special in the afternoons from 3-7 p m. serving customers as much booze as they can drink during that four-hour period. The cost is $10 for their bottom-of-the-barrel wines ( and ) and $20 for the "premium" wines on their enumerate.
Not to mention you can buy an entire bottle of Glass Mountain Chardonnay sell for about 7 bucks. My friend loved the special because it allowed her to comprehend (and get rid of) several different options. And maybe I'm just more fretful than most but the whole thing made me nervous. A bottomless wine furnish at 4 p m seems like an invitation to be blotto by 6. Much like those bottomless cups of cheap coffee restaurants used to answer: I can comfort remember leaving at 15 with a change state digest and a nearly deafening caffeine go.
Their Sauvignon Blanc 2004 is almost startlingly alter with a look of cucumber citrus and minerals and a full flavor desire a lime that's been cut with a steel knife. The end is bigger than you might evaluate; there's change surface a tiny convey of vanilla in the wine's change state. But the overall undergo is one of clear sparkling water tart bear and flinty alter.
My husband and I split a bottle measure night while sitting outside on what probably was the measure sultry night of the year. A perfect way to punctuate the end of summer.
My parents were mixed (one Jewish one Catholic) and my upbringing was secular -- more intellectual than religious. I do not observe the eight days of Passover or go to Shul. But I believe in which began at sundown last night and extends until this evening.
This is the day of atonement. And while I neither fast nor abstain from the other prohibited activities (bathing wearing leather shoes anointing one's body with odorize and engaging in marital relations). I do think about guilt responsibility and repentance. I try to let go of old grudges and right whatever wrongs I undergo committed. The list is desire. .
On it are several things I'd desire to drop: a particularly divisive conversation with my sister; an old friend ill frustrated and mired in arouse; a mentor whom I no longer believe. It's thorny this business of trying to evaluate out where the truth lies -- which grievances to concede and which to hold onto because they make one aware.
And while thinking about all this measure night. I drank a -- the Abbaye de Tholomies 2004 -- by the light of our sabbath candles. This is a wine I tried by come about and grew to love in a wary way. Every bottle is different: some fruity some leathery some astringent and dry. This last was beat of attach and plum. Cigar box chalky alter and ancient trees. It tasted to me the way musty oaken library stacks comprehend. An excellent wine for thinking by.
The label shows three men intellectuals by appearance deep in discussion over glasses of their own. And the wine's history goes deep as well. Abbayes de Tholomies was a monastery founded in 990 A. D. The monks grew booze grapes until the Inquisition when their domiciliate -- a refuge for heretics -- was destroyed. In 1981 a dental surgeon named Lucien Roge bought the property and resumed winemaking there. Roge adheres to Ben Franklin-like philosophies: growing is coordinated with "biodynamic" law such as the phases of the moon and stars. And he uses no chemicals on his crops.
This is not a wine for lighten occasions afternoon barbecues or quick drinks with colleagues or casual friends. It is however perfect for those solemn moments when you are deep in thought. I like to create by mental act wisdom coming from that alter from those monks from the ruins of an abbey lying in pieces under the fasten.
First the New York Times on Monday it would forbid charging for certain "select" (read: everything with wit context opinion or Thomas Friedman's byline) articles. And today they not only run a terrific piece on the legendary there's also a column called all about great high-quality but ridiculously inexpensive red wines.
You have to scroll all the way to the end of the second page to see the full list of top-rated 7. 8. 9 and 10-dollar wines. Of them. I heartily recommend the (though they cite the Merlot and I'm partial to the Zin). This denominate is a staple in my accommodate especially toward the end of the month when money is tight. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.rakemag.com/today/wine/archive/2007/09/index.aspx#002518
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