February 28th, 2011

The Rugged Maniac!

Not that this post has much relevance to wine and furthering your knowledge of it, but I thought you might possibly appreciate these photos. The Rugged Maniac mud race took place this past weekend, and for some reason I was convinced to participate, along with my wife and a bunch of my very close friends.  I ran before her at 9am, so fortunately there aren’t as many pictures of me, since I was the one…

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The £1-a-day red wine wonder pill to combat heart disease, cancer and poverty in Africa.

Ok so I made that last one up…but seriously!!! The U.K newspaper the Daily Mail recently reported on “a £1-a-day red wine wonder pill that claims to ward off heart ­disease, cancer and diabetes is to go on sale in Britain for the first time.” “Makers Biotivia claim the resveratrol supplement – derived from an anti­oxidant found in grape skins and ­naturally present in red wine – is as ­beneficial as exercise. They say the…

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