Some years back, writing in another publication, I suggested (tongue only half in cheek as I’m wont to do), that they should carve the likeness of Robert Mondavi into the Stags Leap palisades, so he could overlook the Napa Valley forever. I now have another suggestion: Don’t you think it’s time to put the craggy visage of 60 Minutes’ Morley Safer up there too, in the crags alongside Bob, Mount Rushmore-style?
After all, Morley, as I call him, has become the true savior of wine, worthy of a monument. He came to be known as a wine-lover, at least we hoped against hope that he was, when he first filed a report for 60 Minutes in 1991 about what he termed “The French Paradox”. In the piece, he posited the question, Why do the French have less incidence of heart disease than do the Americans, even though the French diet is richer in fat? The answer, naturellement, was that it must be the wine.
Seventeen years later, there’s Morley again on the January 25 installment of the CBS classic, still very much alive and vital (it must be the wine), despite his face looking like that of a sharpay’s, and with red-rimmed eyes
Click here to view the Morley Safer Wine RX report.that look as though he might have had too much, well, red wine. This time, Morley focused on what many doctors have found over the last decade-and a-half, that it really must be a compound in the skins of red wine, called resveratrol – an anti-oxidant – that apparently is good for our hearts.
While Big Pharma falls all over itself trying to get approval for a pill laden with resveratrol, Safer’s report couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment for the beleaguered wine industry.
The entire article may be found at:
http://wine.appellationamerica.com/wine-review/662/resveratol.html
