Blackberry Wine

[Zinner]

Yep, many years back the doctor told my mother to get some wine to "build up her blood." She went out and bought Mogan David blackberry wine and drank it by the thimble full. Perhaps that's what dad is dipping into.

Grape juice is good for you to a degree, but doesn't have near the concentration of resveratrol as wine. Plus much fruit juice is loaded with added sugar.

What you probably want is to find dad the red wine from grapes that is ripe and soft(not tannic or acidic). Ask at your local wine store and be sure they understand that you want fruity and ripe flavors.

We get one that I haven't tried yet called Don's Blend Lodi Red(sells for $6.99). I do know that the winemaker is supposed to have made it to please the palate of his own father. It's supposed to be quite quaffable.

Also you might laugh, but a researcher once told me that muscadine wines have lots of the healthy elements too and quite often those are sweet(possibly pleasing a new drinker). The reason is that the muscadine skins are thick and the healthy stuff comes from the skins.

If dad has trouble liking red wine at first, you might start him out with some white wines(Chenin Blanc, classic Riesling) and then later try again with reds.