Can kids taste wine?

In the past few years, I've seen more and more resports about the
benefit of certain wines such as red wine to adults. Searching on the
Internet for "children health wine" all seem to point to articles about
alcoholism or children of alcoholics. I want to see a scientific study
on whether children exhibit the benefit as adults in controlled wine
drinking (or should I say tasting, due to their smaller body size), and
that their health is positively or adversely affected... Does anybody
know such study? Note, I'm not talking about alcohol abuse or any
social consequence. Thanks.

Yong Huang
yong321ATyahoo.com

Children drink wine all the time in France and other countries.

And in France and some other countries, they also learn to drink more
responsibly at a young age.

Jeff

Thanks, Jeff. I've never heard of any social or health problems
specific to French children. So I suppose there's no evidence of
adverse effect of children drinking a controlled amount of wine. Does
anybody know studies of *positive* effect on children then?

Yong Huang
yong321ATyahoo.com

Jeff wrote:
Children drink wine all the time in France and other countries.

And in France and some other countries, they also learn to drink more
responsibly at a young age.

Jeff