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Tannat: The Healthiest Wine Ever

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Why Tannat is a healty wine

It contains lots of straight-chain B-type oligomeric procyanidins (OPCs) that are great for your heart and arteries.

Tannat is the red wine variety used in the Madiran appellation in South West France where heart disease is very low despite a diet rich in fats. 


It was once thought that a substance called resveratrol was the active ingredient in red wines making us healthier, but it is now believed that other substances are more important.

The Top Five Reasons Tannat is the Healthiest Wine 

  • Tannat is a red wine variety from South Western France
  • It makes big juicy wines of Madiran. They just love this wine variety in Uruguay (true!) It was introduced by Basque immigrants in the nineteenth century
  • A dozen or so of the smarter wine makers in Australia use it
  • The role of resveratrol in promoting health is now in dispute, but Tannat does have health giving properties. See this article for the good and bad news about resveratrol
  • Tannat wine is the best source of procyanadins, the polyphenols which help keep your arteries healthy thus preventing heart disease, stroke and diabetes

What the web says about Tannat 

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Links that prove the point 

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Tannat In Australia

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Food Pairing with Tannat

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Wine Ratings

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Red wine procyanidins and vascular health

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Basking with an old Basque « real burgundy

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Madiran madhatters? « real burgundy

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The Wine Diet: Is Red Wine Good For You? - The Naked Scientists January 2007

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Great stuff you can buy about Tannat 

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The Red Wine Diet by Roger Corder

The Red Wine Diet by Roger Corder

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Emerging Varietal Wines of Australia: A guide for the adventurous winelover by Darby Higgs

Emerging Varietal Wines of Australia: A guide for the adventurous winelover by Darby Higgs

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The Wine Lover's Healthy Weight Loss Plan by Tedd Goldfinger

The Wine Lover's Healthy Weight Loss Plan by Tedd Goldfinger

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The Cooking of Southwest France : Recipes from France's Magnificent Rustic Cuisine by Paula Wolfert

The Cooking of Southwest France : Recipes from France's Magnificent Rustic Cuisine by Paula Wolfert

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A few items about Tannat and Health 

Item in BrainReady
French Madiran Wine Best for Longer Life?
Drink Wine and Live Longer
- '1907' Madiran and Plaimont Wines of Southwest France Sponsor the Launch of The Red Wine Diet - Press Release
Earth times review of Corders work.
Roger Corder speaks about Madiran
Brief interview with Roger Corder Author of the 'Red Wine Diet'
Wines that really are good for you
Article from the New York Daily News
Tannat - Appellation America
Tannat grape and Tannat wine. Detail of Tannat grape growing regions, wine and Tannat producing wineries within North America.
Wine polyphenols may reduce effect of fatty food: study
Not specifically about tannat, but it does talk about polyphenols in wine
Want to see your 100th birthday? Be like the French and drink red wine
News report in the Guardian Newspaper about the value of Red wine, especially tannat, in promoting longevity.

Tannat wines you can try 

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La Route du Vin: Madiran Laplace 2003: One of France's Most Seductive (and least known) wines
Writer and importer Cynthia Hurley sings the praises of Madiran wines