Red wine has certain benefits such as cholesterol control, heart health and possibly even cancer prevention, which was found in numerous studies. The benefits of drinking red wine have been known since decades, but its counterpart ‘white wine’ has benefits too, a new study says.

A previous study done by scientists on elixir was more focused on testing in animals or on the ingredients of the drink itself. Scientists have lately reported on two clinical trials that found good news for consumers of white wine.

The first study was named Vino Veritas (in wine there is truth) which involved 146 subjects, in which 50% of them drank pinot noir and rest had a white chardonnay-pinot for a year. The researchers reported at a European Society of Cardiology meeting in 2014 that significant improvement in cholesterol levels were seen in those who consumed white wine and did work out at least twice a week.

The second study, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, was alike the previous one. Researchers in Israel enrolled 224 volunteers with Type 2 Diabetes and they drank 150 milliliters of either white wine or red wine with dinner every day for two years. The results of the study suggested people to drink a glass of red wine everyday to excel cholesterol management and cardiac health. But both red and white wine intake seemed to excel glucose control in most of patients.

The researchers, from Soroka Medical Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Nuclear Research Center in Negev, Israel, said the study “suggests that initiating moderate wine intake, especially red wine, among well-controlled diabetics as part of a healthy diet is apparently safe and modestly decreases cardiometabolic risk”.

Researchers at the University of Barcelona show that white wine has higher antioxidants and has been linked with weight loss and anti-aging effects.

She said, "Here in the South, it would not be something I would generally recommend. I would not say, 'Now you should start drinking wine.' I wouldn't tell someone to start drinking, but if I knew a type 2 diabetes patient was a moderate drinker, I would tell them it looks like red wine is the best choice out of all alcohols to drink, rather than white wine, beer, or hard liquor."