A little wine might be good for you but don’t advertise the fact

“Use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities,” St Paul advised his friend Timothy, who may have been a hypochondriac.

However, the apostle should keep his advice to himself, according to legal advice from the European Court of Justice.

A German wine-producing co-op took a leaf from the Bible and boasted that their wine was “wholesome, easily digestible” — just the sort of thing Timothy might have needed for his stomach ailments.