This distinction allowed studies to highlight the positive medical benefits of wine apart from the mere presence of alcohol.

The prominence of resveratrol in the news and its association with positive health benefits has encouraged some wineries to highlight it in their marketing.

It also has an extensive wine industry and produces microorganisms on an industrial scale to support other industries including agriculture, food technology and brewing.

Research conducted at the Yale School of Public Health in 2009, suggest that wine may have some protective benefits against some forms of cancer.

Royale Somalia reports about the planned launch of a wine version of Khat, a narcotic widely consumed in East Africa

One of the theories proposed by Renaud in the broadcast was that moderate consumption of red wine was a risk reducing factor for the French and that wine could have more positive health benefits yet to be studied.

Compared to non drinkers, women who had been drinking wine for at least 25 years prior were 33 less likely to die over the five year period following diagnosis and 26 less likely to experience a relapse or develop a secondary cancer during that same five year period.

There are over 400 wineries in the area north of San Francisco, mostly located in the area's valleys, including Napa Valley in Napa County, and the Sonoma Valley, Alexander Valley, Dry Creek Valley, Bennett Valley, and Russian River Valley in Sonoma County.