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Thank you Tom. Really enjoyed and support your insights.

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This is just wine-industry BS dressed up as deep thought. Wine is as uniquely connected to nature as bottled water. It's fermented grapes, not some mystical elixir. Stop trying to sell us on grapes as the answer to life's problems.

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Think this over more thoroughly and you’ll understand.

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Oct 25Liked by Tom Wark

I'll be sure to spend hours agonizing over this because clearly your profound insights weren't enough for me.

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Indeed it will.

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Your most eloquent thoughts and writing. Thank you for the encouragement. And I have got to get hold of a bottle of this riesling!

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Great article . I’m a big fan of Riesling ( mostly Australian where I live ) .

Maybe send the article to the anti alcohol lobby in the USA and WHO , which are manipulating historical wine research and its impact on health, to promote and legislate “zero alcohol” in a healthy diet.

They now disregard the previous works around the J curve impact of wine consumption , been 1 to 2 glasses a day is beneficial to health.

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Wow, a Riesling aficionado has descended upon us with their condescending expertise. Your opinion on Australian Rieslings doesn't qualify you as a wine historian or an authority on the J-curve phenomenon.

Furthermore, attempting to hijack a discussion about intellectual honesty and bias to shill for the wine industry is nothing short of laughable. The notion that WHO and some anti-alcohol lobby are manipulating research to promote zero alcohol is a gross exaggeration with no basis in fact.

It takes a special kind of hubris to claim that 1-2 glasses of wine per day is beneficial for health, while ignoring the overwhelming evidence that excessive drinking can lead to serious health problems. If you're so convinced of your own expertise, perhaps you should share some credible research to back up your claims?

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Interestingly, WHO and Movendi and nearly every other anti-alcohol advocate never mention that it's EXCESSIVE consumption that is the problem. Moreover, they don't every detail the level of risk that moderate consumption pose. We know why they do neither of these things: to do so would undermine their message that "no level of alcohol consumption is safe." They may not be manipulating research, but they are ignoring the results of research.

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Interestingly, research also tells us that those who preach alcohol moderation rarely practice it. People tend to under report or misrepresent their own behavior when asked about their alcohol consumption habits. Individuals often downplay or rationalize their own excessive drinking habits by convincing themselves that they're exceptions to the rule or that their consumption is somehow different. I wouldn't expect someone in the alcoholic beverage industry not to have biases, but I do expect that they are at least aware of their own biases. That's leaving aside the fact that 15 glasses of wine a week is simply not healthy by any measure.

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Thank you Tom. I enjoyed reading this as it reflects my own belief that wine is special and helps connect us to the earth and the people who live here.

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Thank YOU, Dan. Wine will be back.

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Obviously you're thoroughly ignorant about wine's deep cultural roots and have no appreciation for the complexity of wine, or as you describe it, "fermented grapes". Stick with drinking your flavored water Walker.

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Oh please, "flavored water" is a perfect description of the Tudor Wines portfolio that lack any depth or complexity, much like Dan's thought process. At least I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid (pun intended) of wine industry marketing. Your elitist put-downs only expose your own ignorance and arrogance.

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I support your sentiments, Tom. Well said. Wine is what gets us through life.

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