Dear David Your erudite thesis, while a well thought out hypothesis, is not evidence-based and I fear would suffer if experimenation were applied. Rheumatologists I dare say are not monochromatic in their tastes any more than in their practices. Tea for some, beer for others and coffee of course to keep them going in their challenging days. However, none of those quaffs can be accused of being "intelligent" like the delicious whites of Friuli or "complex and intense" like a pinot noir. Give me a delicious meal created by an inventive cook - who might also be a rheumatologist- and complement it with a bordeaux from a French chateau. I can then have any old strong black coffee to keep me awake when I drive home. IN VINO VERITAS! Fondly AW