I love wine. And I usually have one glass a night either with dinner or while i’m cooking. the one glass a night sort of crept up on me. so my tolerance went from being so high on one glass of wine that i couldn’t drive to just getting a little buzz. I don’t want to build a bigger tolerance so i make sure and keep it at one glass. and not a water glass lol! about 4 oz. However… I will admit it scares me a little that I love that glass so much. alcohol is a sneaky drug.

I wish I could drink. After everything that happened since 1995 - wish I could drink! I like wine. Averagely I drink 1 glass maybe every two months. Sometimes when out to eat. It depends. Too many alcoholics in my family so I just never went for it. Living in Cal we get some great wines, but it isn’t a big deal for me. And as Bonnie pointed out, as a breast cancer survivor we avoid wine.

The poll needs one more option “once in a while”

I live in the Mississippi Delta where drinking is part of the culture. I don’t always drink wine every day but I drink it when i have it and I don’t consciously limit myself or the experience. I love beer too and margaritas and a great martini. I love that first drink whatever it may be.

Unfortunately, all wine is a migraine trigger, not just red wine, and Champagne is the worst! This info comes straight from a renowned neurologist who specializes in headaches.

None. Sulfites gave me a headache on most occasions so, I gave it up as a beverage years ago. But I love to cook with dry vermouth.

Love my red wine & watch it that my tolerance doesn’t go up too high, due to the alcoholic tendencies of my forebears. But they were into whiskey - quite different stuff. And the red does help the cholesterol. To avoid sulfates, get the better stuff - fewer chemicals - Actually, fyi Gallo Livingston Cellars makes nice red vin du table. I love the other if I can afford it!

as much as possible…

I don’t drink. Can’t miss what you don’t have :)

I do love wine but I rarely drink it. It does not love me back. The thing that I keep running into is when I dine with friends who are wine aficionados, they cannot believe that I do not drink wine, or that if I do, I have only half a glass with dinner. I have even seen people group themselves by this unconsciously, people who drink hanging out more with people who drink, and vice versa. My uncle actually died in part because he drank too much. He had a heart attack in his forties that his doctor thought was brought on by drinking. So for all the talk of how a little red wine is good for you, a lot is probably not. And last year I picked up my cousin from a public health conference on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; what they learned is that they needed to convince any women who were sexually active, whether or not they were using birth control, to drink NOT AT ALL until menopause! I was thinking how on earth can they make that argument? But evidently, alcohol ingested by the mother even in small amounts in the first weeks of pregnancy, can have devastating consequences for the fetus. It is not so dangerous in the last weeks of pregnancy, but those first few weeks, when women do not even know they are pregnant, are key. So sometimes I wish I could drink a little wine without it adversely affecting me, but maybe learning to avoid it many years ago has kept me healthier than otherwise.