I’m just sitting here, sipping a little glass of Yellowtail Shiraz; I know a WordPress friend told me it was not as good ad other Australian wines, but I do like it… anyway the advice of St Paul to Timothy sprang into my mind: “drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.” Luckily for me I don’t often have infirmities, but I’m sure it is a good idea to ‘use a little wine’ from time to time. I’m not a Christian but I was brought up in a Christian culture and I’m very familiar with the Bible, and there are so many times when people are exhorted to enjoy the fruit of the vine or wine is mentioned in a celebratory way.
“Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what you do.” That’s rather nice,isn’t it? Drinking with a joyful heart – it’s the only way really, its not a good idea to drink with a miserable heart! In Psalms there is the phrase “wine that gladdens the heart of man” and women I should hope! Jesus was a wine drinker, turning water to wine at the wedding feast at Cana, what a glorious vintage that would have been!
Oh well, I’ll just enjoy my Yellowtail… oh no! My glass has a hole in it, it’s empty! Well, you know what that means!
Lois Elsden 
Until fairly recent centuries people did not drink water much as it was polluted. So I often wonder if everyone is drinking beer and wine ,including children , all day long how did anything get done history and societal wise if everyone was drunk all day long?
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I think the beer was very dilute… not sure about the wine, but in England people would be drinking beer and cider all day long! Hard manual labour out in the fields, they probably wore off any alcohol!
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