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In article >,
(sgbrix) wrote:

>"Sydney" > wrote in message
>...
>> Alcohol shrinks brain & no stroke benefits
>>
>> An interesting study found that low to moderate drinking may cause a loss of
>> brain tissue in middle-age people.
>
> ---snip
>
>I assume we are addressing the alcohol issue here. I don't know how
>other feels, but I would be extremely happy if it would be possible to
>create great wines without the alcohol effect. It is the taste,
>feeling of a "big" wine that I would adore, not the alcohol effect on
>my puny brain.

You can suspend more solid matter in alcohol than in water (that's why
most cooking extracts are alcohol based, as are many liquid medicines).
Unfortunately, a 'wine' containing only water will taste watery.

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