Philip Norrie
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Title: THE WORLD’S HEALTHIEST BEVERAGE – FULL STRENGTH [100 MG/L] RESVERATROL ENHANCED WINE [REW] - THE NEWEST INNOVATION IN THE WORLD’S WINE INDUSTRY
Biography
Biography: Philip Norrie
Abstract
Introduction
Grape wine was first made in China 9,500 years ago and mankind has been using it as a medicine for the past 5,000 years; thus making it mankind’s oldest medicine. Because wine is made using age old traditional methods and because the OIV or Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin [International Organisation of Vine and Wine] is very strict in its definition of what is wine and what can be done with wine, very few innovations have been made in the international wine industry.
Findings
Wine is a food and an integral part of the very healthy Mediterranean Diet. Recent innovations in the international wine industry are few and far between. The three most recent innovations include the “Bag in the Box” or cask wine where the wine was packaged in a plastic bladder which was then put inside a cardboard box. This was invented and patented by Australian winemaker Thomas Angove in 1965. The next innovation was the Stelvin cap or wine bottle metal closure, which replaced the traditional cork wine bottle closure. The original screwcap was invented by the French company La Boucharge Mecanique in 1959, but Australian Consolidated Industries bought the rights and in 1970 launched the renamed Stelvin cap. The next innovation in the international wine scene is the packaging of wine in cans to appeal to the younger generation. They were developed to compete with the popular cans of “Alcopops”- spirits [usually vodka] mixed with fruit juices. The sweetness appealed to the younger drinkers. The Australian company Barokes created and patented the first successful wine in a can in 1996 and called it Vinsafe.
The latest innovation in the international wine industry is full strength Resveratrol Enhanced Wine [REW] with a resveratrol concentration of 100 mg/l compared to the usual 1-2 mg/l for white wines and 3-6 mg/l for red wines; developed by Dr Philip Norrie in 2006.
The Zutphen Study is the world’s longest running longitudinal study of causes of death. It has shown that wine drinkers outlive teetotallers by five years on average, thus making wine mankind’s healthiest beverage. Dr Norrie’s REW has just made wine even healthier and a much better nutraceutical.