That’s the question I have to ask myself after hearing about the newest nutrition bar. Yes, it’s great to find a product with only 190 calories. Love the fact that it’s marketed as a luxury nutrition bar. That’s a new branding category, I think. Another positive: High in fiber and loaded with seven super fruits such as pomegranate. Getting me excited.
Am a little flummoxed by the quantity claim that the WineTime Bar contains as much resveratrol as 50 glasses of red wine! Now you understand my problem. Love the health benefits from resveratrol and the fact that the company sourced the Rhone reds, but am just a little confused by how much is too much.
Should we be drinking 50 glasses of red wine at a time? Should one bar which we will willingly enjoy for its fiber-rich, low-calorie, dark chocolate taste be a substitute for those many enjoyable sips of dinner reds? There’s something fundamentally wrong with this picture.
Who is doing the science to question how much resveratrol we should consume in one sitting? How much is too much? How many bars should we have daily? Three? 150 glasses?
Those who jumped on the early bandwagon and consume resveratrol pills may want to enjoy a bar instead. A glass of water and a pill is one approach, but a chocolate bar certainly sounds more appealing. We just have a few unanswered questions.
Personally, I prefer to have my cake and eat it, too, or in this case my chosen glass of red with a small bar of 71% dark chocolate and then my double espresso!
The wine industry has managed to have a stellar year despite some strategic changes. Many restaurants decided to rethink their Reserve lists, grocers and wine stores increased their specially priced wines, AKA the under $10 bins, and consumers became more adventuresome in their selections than maybe they were a year ago. With all the adjustments, the wine industry survived with 
A lot has changed since the dreaded Recession/near Depression and economic slide of 2009. We are definitely different shoppers, consumers, diners, cooks, and lest we forget, different drinkers. The specialty wine industry of high-priced labels may be truly limited to the top 1% of the population. They may not even know that there’s been a slowdown, a change in purchasing power. They may not have been affected, but they have to be making purchases or nothing will change.
About this time in the calendar, at the end of the month and before the new month, we look at the various ways we can celebrate food during the coming weeks. September clearly will not disappoint. Sure it’s a hectic month with back-to-school, lunchboxes, and a semi-normal work schedule without long weekend escapes, but there is much to celebrate. Take a peek.
Sometimes the line “no good deed goes unpunished” summarizes an event most accurately. Take a recent example: You find an error on your dining out bill. Don’t get excited, it’s not an overcharge. Rather, it’s the opposite. You find the server forgot to include the wine on the bill.
The days of expensive wine lists may be over or at least limited in acceptance. I now recoil with disappointment when I go to a moderately priced restaurant and am handed a book, literally pages of impressive labels and high price tags. Why should one rejoice at the impressive list when there is little under $50 a bottle?
In the confusing world of health news, there are few topics more confusing than those that deal with the affect of alcohol consumption. One day wine, specifically red wine, is good for you. The next day, it is a leading cause of some type of horrible cancer. Then there are the wavering days: It’s good but not that good.
I’ve had it. It’s ridiculous. A place charges upwards of $10 for a glass or over $40 for a bottle, and they think they can get away with 1950s wine glasses. Come on. Get over it. That’s unacceptable. We deserve a proper glass for a red. Those little glasses may work fine for a white, but a red needs to open. None of this narrow bowl. Nor the fat rim. I know times are tough, but you’ve been using those glasses forever. Throw ‘em out. Invest a little. You don’t have to look too far. Go to 
It’s that day, the one that marks the end and morphs into the new. I know I’m supposed to say how I regret this and that and promise that I will whatever this coming year, but the 31st has its own special significance.