Boy, you just can't trust anybody anymore. Which throws a lot of wine marketing programs, I suspect, into disarray. There is no scientific proof that drinking wine or any other alcoholic beverage can replace these effective conventional measures. Reuters notes in its story on the subject that studies on drinking and heart disease have been all over the place.
Some experts say that wine contains antioxidants that prevent hardening of the arteries.
Of course, so do a lot of fruits and vegetables. It's another subject, but I've always thought that beer contains fiber. But we probably don't want to go there now. It probably is worth conceding that not everyone should get his or her antioxidants from wine. But I think that in general I'm going to stick with the earlier reports that endorsed red wine.