I'm not an oncologist/researcher, but I am a wine drinker and don't want to do harm to myself by drinking wine, so, a few reflections on cancer and alcohol.
I don't drink wine to get drunk.
I drink wine to enhance my dinner and because wine can be magnificent.
I have heard VERY reliable studies that point to a correlation between alcohol and cancer.
Italy, France, and Luxemburg are counties with the longest lifespans in the world and incidentally have the highest wine consumption of all other countries, Portugal and Spain are among the largest wine producers and yet have something like a 5–8-year higher lifespan than the United States.
My musing is that something is out of whack here, and I am suspicious that broadbrush studies maybe throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Any comments on this subject would be appreciated.
Just a note on the wine I drink: $1,000 bottles of wine are fine for the right application and or magazine, but I've moved into more parochial parameters of $10-$50 wines with exceptions, like my stored wines and an occasional splurge.
I don't normally do commentary posts, and my wine consumption has changed considerably with my three major surgeries and just the weight of nearly fifteen years of wine reviewing. I do use my own reviews in buying wine and am confident that past experiences are helpful in my present purchases. If the quality/price/ ratio (Q/P/R) is out of whack or if a wine fails me, I'm not likely to buy it again.
Cheers and Happy New Year!
Sincerely,
Dennis Tsiorbas
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