half a bottle of wine per night - problematic?

I have a glass most nights, today was a single vineyard merlot , beringer 2016. Nice berry flavor once it opens up!

I hate going dry in the evening or without caffeine in the morning, You can’t be rich and attract a hot woman without vices….

Half a bottle is a bit much

DidntMissAnything wrote:

That's a six pack every day. That sounds alright for people in their 20s going out every night after work and then watching sports and hanging out on the weekend with buddies. But being drunk every night during quality time with the wife and family? Life can be better than that.

A bottle of wine is actually one of the few things that actually leads to quality time with the wife.

Surely it's better than water dependency.

If you're a runner it might be a problem ie interference with GH production and ability to recover, leading to injuries. Most recommendations I've ever read say 1-2 glasses at most but I guess more can always be rationalized.

1/2 a bottle? Pffft. That's my appetizer before I hit the gin and whisky each night.

real men drink Bud Light

1/2 a bottle is a-ok.

The issue is that over the years that turns into a full bottle and a few beers or whatever.

The recommendation I see most often is not more than 2 glasses for a man, and 1 glass for a woman. However, I'd assume this is primarily based on size. If you are a smaller male, then it might be more like 1 to 1.5 glasses.

A bottle of wine contains 5 glasses for a standard 11-12% alcohol. Many wines these days are 14-15%.

I'd say based on that a bottle a night is too much. I also question if the 1-2 glasses a "day" is sound advice, but that's just my personal opinion not backed by any studies I've seen (other than they are more and more questioning any benefit from alcohol - which is a poison to the body).

wine drinking is effeminate

that's the problem

grateful head wrote:

most educated professional friends I have do this, often with their partners in which case it will be a fully bottle

they've been doing this for years and to my knowledge are in perfectly good health.

this is probably OK, yes?

Yeah, because wine doesn't keep well overnight

Drink the whole thing. It's not worth holding off

grateful head wrote:

most educated professional friends I have do this, often with their partners in which case it will be a fully bottle

they've been doing this for years and to my knowledge are in perfectly good health.

this is probably OK, yes?

A hormetic dose of beer or wine is fantastic for you. But it’s just a small dose - and the alcohol isn’t necessarily even a decent part of the benefit afforded. Most of the benefit comes from polyphenols, terpenes, isohumulones from hops, and other plant compounds, as well as the products of fermentation.

You quickly exceed the psychological benefits from the alcohol and the hormetic benefits if you drink to excess. And studies show that above 40 grams of alcohol per week is worse than 1-40 grams per week, but then again the data is leaving out many key variables.

My gf drinks two a night. She already has a bottle polished when I get home from work at 6p. If she clears those two bottles and hasn’t passed out then she’ll do a vodka soda. She usually doesn’t make it past 2 of those though.

OP: Drink a glass most nights, two a couple nights, and none a couple nights?

I believe in moderation. Half a bottle every night... probably a bit much. But I'm with ya, and at times I've gone up to about that, to them cut back to one a night.

And for all those who say wine is effeminate.... yes, cool, of course, just leave yours here with me (you can bring that white Zinf back for your girlfriend tho). That, and the Belgian beer. You can have all my manly Bud and Miller Light.

We are to use the label around carefully and appropriate here, and, in this case... your GF is an alcoholic.

i thought life was for living.

if a man can't drink while he alive...how the hell is he gonna drink when he's dead?

I'd rather have a full body in front of me, than a full frontal lobotomy.

Two drinks per night is mostly fine, but you're entering the danger zone with that kind of regularity. Your friends should take some nights off and have some edibles instead.

Jambo wrote:

wine is only for women.

Lew Budd wrote:

real men drink Bud Light

Charles Bukowski wrote:

wine drinking is effeminate

Lol. It's obviously stupid to associate alcoholic beverage preferences with masculinity, but even if there were a correlation, on what possible grounds would light beer be considered more masculine than wine? Light beer is for hot summer days and high school kids who don't know how to hold their liquor. It's like alcohol with training wheels. You might as well be drinking a Capri Sun.

^ bottle, not body!

No. They're healthier not to. It does not mess people up enough to make a giant difference. I think social wine drinking does not really lead to substance abuse the way other drinking does, either.