The “news cycle” in these days of the Internet and social media sometimes goes in circles, as it did today when someone, somewhere posted a link to a 2009 New York Daily News article that quoted a 2009 U.K. Daily Mail article that quoted a 2009 medical study about red wine and its affect on sex.

I must admit that the report is rather intriguing, even if it is more than a year old.

Here’s what the study was about and what the researchers found:

Although there had been prior favorable evidence connecting moderate red wine to men’s sexual health, nobody had studied whether there was a similar correlation among women. So, Nicola Mondaini and colleagues at the University of Florence asked 798 women in the Chianti region to participate in their study. After dividing the women into groups based on their usual red wine intake, the researchers asked them to complete a standardized sexual health questionnaire.

The results showed that women who drank one or two glasses of red wine daily scored much higher on measures of desire and lubrication - and overall sexual health - than women who either abstained from alcohol or drank more than two glasses of red wine daily or consumed white wine or other alcohol.

Dr. Mondaini says the “intriguing” results have their limitations because of the study’s methodology, but they certainly suggest a connection “between red wine consumption and better sexuality.”

Yet another reason I prefer red wine.