Did you know that every part of your body responds favourably to the gifts of wine and chocolate?
“Red wine, with its concentration of polyphenois properties, is reputed to have anti-clotting, antioxidant, and relaxing benefit,” says David Long of the Canadian Craft Winemakers Association (CCWA), an organization that supports professional techniques for making wine at home.
“At spas all over the world, Valentine sweethearts are trying such stimulating treatments as “red wine body buffs,” “berry wine pedicures,” and “flavanoid facial peels.”
And as you might have guessed, the properties of dark chocolate are similar to wine and deliver beneficial treatment to the skin as well.
“Cocoa’s antioxidant compounds also stimulate healthy activity.”
Long continued, “although it should be said that smearing chocolate all over one’s body must pose quite a challenge to the nose and taste buds.”
Even so, you and your Valentine can now get a chocolate massage, chocolate facial, chocolate pedicure and more — and if that's not enough, you can also bring home chocolate lip balm, chocolate soap and chocolate massage oil.
And, Long adds: “You can also get what we call ‘chocolate in a bottle.’ Why resist the taste of such pleasures when in the past few years, the consumer-made wine industry has evolved into such luxurious dessert wines as dark Chocolate Raspberry or Chocolate Orange Port? These flavours are so seductive they are ideal for the finale of any Valentine meal.”
Chocolate varieties are often a ‘limited release’ but the kits and store locations are worth looking for at winemadesimple.ca.
