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