Slate magazine's Mike Steinberger takes CBS's 60 Minutes to task for being perhaps a little over-enthusiastic about the health benefits of drinking red wine. The focus of the enthusiasm is a compound found in grape skins that has been credited with everything from preventing heart disease to promoting longevity: resveratrol. 

It looks very much like the health benefits of reveratrol - especially as found in red wine - are still somewhat in doubt even a decade and a half after the news first seeped into the public realm. 

Steinberger suggests Americans want the "cover" of health benefits as an "excuse" to drink wine. He then concludes that wine is a habit that requires no rationale other than the pursuit of enjoyment.