Astudyoftheeffects of alcoholon the middle-aged and elderlyfound the averageIQ of men who drinkwine (whether made fromgrapesorrice) was 3.3 points higherthan that of men whodo notimbibe.
There are chemical traces inside 9, 000-year-old pottery from Northern China that indicates that it was a wine drinkmadefromrice, grapes, hawthorn and honey and wooly mammoth.