Here's to Your Good Health

It has long been known that a glass of red wine is good for you, but now spas are proclaiming the great grape's properties and using it in their treatments. "Vinotherapy" clients are massaged and bathed in wine and vine extracts. Supporters insist that grape antioxidants are more powerful than vitamins C and E and have a positive effect on the skin. "Because of oxidation, the body 'rusts' in the same way an apple turns brown," says Geraldine Mitton, medical director of Sant Winelands Hotel, a wellness center in the Paarl-Franschhoek valley, one of South Africa's best-known wine regions. The solution:...