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A cerebral experience
New Zealand Listener
|May 10-16, 2025
A sip of wine gives your cognitive functioning a thorough drill. BY MICHAEL COOPER
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If you want to give your brain the finest workout, forget trying to solve difficult maths problems or listening to classical music. Tasting wine is best. According to Yale neuroscientist Professor Gordon Shepherd (1933-2022), tasting wine “engages more of our brain than any other human behaviour”.
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