The journal
A clearer view of wine and wellbeing.
Reporting that makes room for research, ritual, and the real-life choices behind every pour.
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ABV, Pour Size, and Standard Drinks: How Much Alcohol Is Really in Your Wine?
A “glass of wine” is not a fixed amount of alcohol. ABV and pour size can turn one glass into much more than one standard drink.
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Halloween Wine & Wellness: Smarter Hosting, Late Nights, and Better Pacing
A practical guide to Halloween wine service: measured pours, food, hydration, lower-alcohol choices, sleep, transportation, and safer hosting.
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Industry News to Watch: Transparency, Reformulation, and Choice
Wine labeling is changing. Here’s what proposed U.S. Alcohol Facts rules, EU ingredient disclosures, and lower- and no-alcohol options mean for consumers.
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Wine and Hydration: Does a Glass of Wine Dehydrate You?
Alcohol can temporarily increase urine output, but whether a glass of wine meaningfully affects hydration depends on the pour, ABV, water intake, heat, exercise, and health.
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Resveratrol and Red Wine: What the Science Actually Says
Resveratrol helped build red wine’s health halo, but the amounts found in wine are small and laboratory findings do not translate directly into benefits from drinking.
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Calories, Carbs, and Sugar in Wine: What Is Actually in Your Glass?
Most of wine’s calories come from alcohol, not sugar. Learn how alcohol level, residual sugar, and serving size shape what is in a glass.
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Food, Flavor, and Pace: Designing Better Social Rituals
How food, glass size, water, serving order, and social cues can make gatherings more enjoyable while naturally slowing the pace of drinking.
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Wine, Blood Pressure, and Heart Health: What to Know
Wine and heart health are often discussed together, but the relationship is more complex than a simple “red wine is good for you” message.
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Low- and No-Alcohol Drinks: What the Labels Really Mean
What alcohol-free, non-alcoholic, and reduced-alcohol labels mean—and how to compare ABV, sugar, calories, flavor, and value.
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Wine and Sleep: Why a Nightcap Can Backfire
Wine may make you feel sleepy at first, yet alcohol can fragment sleep later in the night. Here is what the evidence suggests and how to protect your rest.
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Nutrition by the Glass: Putting Wine in the Context of a Meal
Calories, alcohol, sugar, serving size, and the meal around the glass—an evidence-based way to put wine in nutritional context.
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What Wine and Health Research Can—and Cannot—Tell Us
A practical guide to what wine-and-health studies can prove, where headlines overreach, and how to judge new research with confidence.
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Moderation Is Personal: Building a Drinking Plan That Fits Your Life
A practical, nonjudgmental framework for deciding whether, when, and how much to drink based on your health, responsibilities, and goals.
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