To good health

SIR – I was delighted and amused to see that drinking a variety of wines has been acknowledged as having health benefits (report, March 3).

Back in the 1970s, when we opened the London branch of Caves de la Madeleine – the mothership in Paris being the location of the late, great Steven Spurrier’s celebrated Judgment of Paris – we promoted, with a soupçon of British irony not intended by the author, Soignez-vous par le Vin by Dr Pierre Maury.

There was no ailment for which Dr Maury did not have a curative wine – Côtes de Provence for cholesterol, Sancerre or Pouilly-fumé for gallstones, Bordeaux for bronchial complaints, and so on.

Perhaps our irony was misplaced after all.

Gerald Trotter London SW1