How often do you have a glass of wine.?

Gosh, I'm surprised by those who put themselves down even jocularly for indulging freely. Go for it and do what you want. My niggardly consumption is my choice. As long as drinking is a choice and not a compulsion then I see it as a total and yet another freedom of retirement to be enjoyed.

Only a glass or two at family celebrations a few times a year.
I often fancy one but my H can't have alcohol due to his medication, and he starts moaning about wishing he could join me. So it's not worth the hassle.
It worries me how much young people consume these days though.

One glass at the weekend because I am Type 2 diabetic.

Throughout my childhood and adolescence, my mother had a gin and tonic every evening and my father a whisky and dry ginger (or three). I never saw them drunk, except once when my father was legless at my cousin's wedding. Goodness knows what it took to get him drunk.

My mother has lived to 98 with no illnesses or any kind of ill health. She doesn't drink G&T any more, unless my sister or I are there.

Anyway, I now live in a wine-producing area where €4 is considered a lot for a glass of wine. A "glass" of wine is .25 litres. At fairs and fests, it is usual to drink wine by the half-litre. In rougher taverns if you order a quarter, you will be told to come back when you're thirsty!

Having said that, I no longer enjoy alcohol because I get headaches from it, but I often forget and have a G&T or a glass of wine.

That way, we get through about a bottle of red and a bottle of white a week. That includes wine used in cooking, but not drunk with meals out. (You don't "go out for a drink" round these parts - something I miss badly.)

Prompted by ideas found here on Gransnet, I am looking forward to retirement/unemployment, which I am due for very soon, and knocking off at 6 pm and sharing a glass with DH. It won't always be wine, though.

Urmston gran(my gran used to live in Urmston) and Anne sixty let’s get together ???
I am extremely healthy, no meds, fit as far as I know. And enjoying life. Now I’m not saying that you can’t enjoy life without wine, but if you don’t have to.......

I am truly astonished by the number of people on GN and on facebook who seem to believe that a glass (or more) is the norm for every 'occasion' e.g. Friday night as a reward for a weeks work, feeling a bit down, Sunday Lunch, visitors, a meal out, holidays, birthdays, Anniversaries, payday, the list is endless. Sour grapes perhaps from me. As 24/7 carer and only driver, who has done the late night dash to hospital (much quicker than waiting for the ambulance to come out and go back), I need my wits about me at all times. Not to mention the cost!!!

I don't drink alcohol at all, not even at celebrations, I just don't like the taste. Mind you, pre marriage and children I was a regular on the club scene in the city where I then lived and drank everything from pints of brown/bitter to whisky and coke. The only drink I never liked at that time was gin.
When I got married that didn't interest me and

not me Granny23 but I come from a family who all signed the pledge at the beginning of the last century and who in the main weren't drinkers ,Famously my aunt asked the off licence owner if she bought beer on a thursday would it "keep" until a party on Saturday .She never lived it down

...contd....the taste of alcohol made me feel unwell. I've not had a drink since then and don't miss it.

I like wine but am trying to lose weight so I only drink if going out for a meal. It is my birthday this Sunday so DH and I will probably share a bottle with dinner. I sometimes buy a bottle from the supermarket and we share over 3 nights or if my elder daughter is home it lasts for 2 nights. Not done that since Christmas though so had an alcohol free January.

I shall join all the other daily tipplers, I have a small glass of Rosé every evening with my meal, a bottle lasts me a week. When my husband was alive, we got into the habit of sharing a bottle of red a night, and he would follow that with a brandy, but I decided to cut that out as I felt the effects the next morning.
My first husband was an alcoholic, so I'm well aware of the dangers of drink!
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I will confess to daily indulgence in the past, I've always enjoyed a drink & DH was a heavy drinker. I do like spirits, used to be whiskey but now more likely to be vodka or gin with tonic.

Now I rarely drink as I'm on a medically restricted driving licence, renewed annually which entails report from GP & Blood results, sometimes an independent medical with blood sample which is sent direct to DVLA. I'm supposed to avoid alcohol with my medication so it's an occasional glass of wine but only if I'm not driving.

I do miss alcohol but I'm very aware that once I start I may not stop, I love Echo Falls, so light & I've discovered a non-alcoholic pear cider.

I have no problem with others drinking when I'm on a soft drink, DM at nearly 89 has a glass of wine Saturday & Sunday also has wine when she goes out for a meal lunch or dinner.

annsixty thank goodness for your post - chimes with me completely, unlike all the ones previous to you . We have wine as and when we feel like it but also several alcohol free days a week. Everything in moderation is my rule of thumb. I hope I'm still able to enjoy a glass if I'm lucky enough to reach your age

I don't drink as much anymore as DH works away during the week and I don't want to open a bottle of wine just for me. Now, we'll open a bottle of wine on a Saturday and Sunday evening to enjoy with our meal. It's strange, really, but I seem to enjoy it more now that I've cut back. Occasionally, we'll have a G & T or other spirit in the afternoon, but not always.
To be honest, I don't miss the mid week bottle we used to share, and I also think I tend to have a better nights sleep. We indulge more on holiday and at Christmas, but even then, not as much as we used to.
I agree with others who have said that a lot of the younger generation tend to get through more alcohol during the week and weekends. A relative of ours treats it like water, especially at weekends. It's a worry, because of the possible hidden dangers that might show up in later life.

Well said Kim19 Every time I have a drink I can hear a little voice in my head saying 'you'll get cancer, liver disease, heart trouble, diabetes, gain weight, get addicted etc'. For goodness sake. I'm doing OK so far. Each to their own.

I enjoy a glass of red wine most nights and more at weekends.

I have 2 glasses on Saturday evening with our family meal. There is generally a glass or so left, so may use up during the week and until recently tended to have a wine box in, so could pour a glass for glugging or cooking if I did fancy one. My usual tipple is a tin of Holsten or a Westons cider, which I know are both vegan and may buy a box of Westons rather than the tins, as will last longer The only time I drink during the day is when DS and I go to town to the Wetherspoons, do our shopping and have a pint about once every week or two. Don't tend to drink spirits, fortified wine or liqueurs except at Christmas.

Oddly enough there’s two things I’d never do before 5.00pm and that’s have a drink or turn the TV on ?

I don't drink alcohol. I haven't for 15 years. It started becoming a problem so I got off that slippery slope.

Didn't like it, only drank it for affect so no great hardship

And I don’t mind opening a bottle (red, white or pink!) ‘just’ for me. Who better haha! C’mon ladeez.... you don’t have to drink it all at one session but if you fancy a glass of wine, even on your own, why ever not? We don’t always want the same things at the same times as others. Why demonise wine this way? I get it, moderation is key, but if you always wait for company when you’d like to enjoy a glass of wine then that’s just going to be a disappointment.

Actually, looking at our posts on this topic it would seem only about 1:5 of us ‘admit’ to drinking above government guidelines. A true reflection? Really?

When my husband was with me,he's now in a care home,we had a drink each evening.I've cut down to just a glass of wine at weekends,and sometimes something mid week,not very often.I can't say I feel any better or lost any weight.I don't know what to think,we often hear of people who live to a good age and have always had a drink each day.

Irrespective of how much wine anyone drinks - one thing's for certain - it will all be increasing in price after Brexit as we leave the Customs Union, and fail simultaneously to negotiate the trade deals elsewhere that Mrs May thinks we will be able to do - so it will be wine from these fair isles !

A recent (2017) study found that drinking red wine, does have health benefits. This confirms several other studies which found that moderate red wine driving is beneficial.

Too much can be destructive to your health, raising your blood pressure and your risk of developing several kinds of cancer. Too little may hold you back from some of the benefits that moderate drinkers enjoy, like lower incidence of cardiovascular disease, mortality and type-2 diabetes.

The amount that’s just right, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, might be a nightly glass of wine with dinner, especially if you follow a Mediterranean-style diet.

I often wonder Urmstongran how much people admit to drinking. I don't mean people on here as they seem such an honest lot but people generally. I know several people who, when asked by their GP how much they drink, are economical with the truth.