chapter 1 Drinking wine / chapter 2 The history of wine as a medicine / chapter 3 Archaeology and the origins of wine production / chapter 4 Saving the vine from Phylloxera: a never-ending battle / chapter 5 Wine and heart disease: a statistical approach / chapter 6 Wine, alcohol and cardiovascular diseases / chapter 7 Wine flavonoids, LDL cholesterol oxidation and atherosclerosis / chapter 8 Resveratrol: biochemistry, cell biology and the potential role in disease prevention / chapter 9 Grape-derived wine flavonoids and stilbenes / chapter 10 Modern biotechnology of winemaking / chapter 11 The identity and parentage of wine grapes / chapter 12 Wine and migraine / chapter 13 Wine: protective in macular degeneration / chapter 14 Antimicrobial effects of wine