Insights: Is wine good for you?

There is little evidence that drinking wine or other alcohol will improve the health of younger people, who are less at risk of heart disease in the first place.

There’s long been discussion about the risks and rewards that drinking wine has on your health.

So what’s true and what’s not? In reality ‘moderate’ drinking (one or two units a day) does seem to offer some protection against heart disease - but primarily for men aged over 40 and post-menopausal women (and only when consumption is limited to five units a week - that’s just two standard glasses of wine).