How many of you drink a whole bottle of wine to yourselves ?

Emp_Fab

I buy a couple of bottles a week, but I seem unable to restrict myself to a couple of glasses...  Once it's open, I keep drinking it until it's all gone.  From a binge-drinking PoV, it's not ideal.  Your average bottle of plonk contains about 9 to 10 units.  Do that twice a week with a few bottles of IPA in between and I'm easily over the Govt's recommended limit.

Does anyone else polish off the whole bottle one the cork is out ?

notanon

It's rock and roll - you stop at wine? No, really, . . . do you? Why?

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breakstuff

Used to regularly until a stomach condition (achalasia) meant I couldn't drink red wine without it causing me problems.Since I've had an op on my stomach I can now drink it again,however I restrict myself to no more than two small glasses.I actually enjoy it more as I drink it a lot slower and can often nurse a glass for an hour or so.

holnrew

I used to have a bottle of wine as pre drinks. I rarely drink now. If I do drink to get smashed I'll have a couple of nice beers then something stronger like a bottle of fortified wine

sweepy

Terribly bad form to put the cork back in

exocet

Yes, I recognise this pattern of behaviour.

richardhomer

None of your bloody business. And for the record - I do NOT have a problem!

CabbageCat

I generally only have a couple of glasses if it's a school night.

Bidley

I only drink if I intend on getting very drunk, which is once every couple of months, if that. Sometimes I'll have a couple of beers on a friday night in the garden.

fields5069

I need to stop drinking so regularly, I find myself polishing off 2 or 3 strong ales per night sometimes. It's only a problem in terms of money, and age = slowing metabolism = flabby gut. However I also find it tends to placate me to an extent where, yes, I'm happy getting home, walking the dog, and then drinking and cooking before I even get to sit down, but then when I sit down I watch shitty YT videos instead of something more constructive like reading.

Sporky

On drinky nights I have two large glasses of wine - half a bottle. That's a pleasant amount of booze with no noticeable issues the next day.

stickyfiddle

MrsF & I can happily knock back a couple of G&Ts followed by a bottle of wine between us, but not that often. I'm certainly happy enough having a single glass with dinner and no more.

EricTheWeary

At the wedding I went to on Saturday I was given a glass of wine and a glass of champagne and finished neither. So, not me. Just makes me feel ill. I'll drink half a pint or a small bottle of beer sometimes but any more than that makes me want to vomit.
If the question was how many of you eat an entire Victoria sponge to themselves...  

CHRISB50

I only have wine if I'm sitting down to dinner properly, which I do very rarely. When I do, I might have a glass or two, but never the whole bottle.

The only thing I drink regularly will be a couple of bottles of ale Friday / Saturday / Sunday in the afternoon / evening.

Emp_Fab

I'm definitely feeling the effects this morning.  I could do with another two hours in bed.  I don't open the bottle with the intention of drinking it all.  Even if I have an actual plan to limit myself to say, half the bottle, it never works out like that.  Once the first glass is in me, I lose all self control.  It's no different from an open packet of biscuits.

Danny1969

I only have one or two glasses of wine max in the evenings, I'm pretty good in that respect. It's the 35 pints of lager a week  which is more a problem

randella

What stops me having any booze at all more than anything these days, at least during the week, is the fear of the Old-age Hangover Randomiser, or OAHR. 

On a rare occasion I can have a whole bottle of wine or equivalent in beer and feel tip top the next day. What happens the other 95% of the time is that I'll have an amount nearer @Sporky 's suggestion and wake up feeling trampled on.

It's a surprisingly effective deterrent. 

Axe_meister

Friday night is my wine night. I get the living room to myself, but on a good movie, bottle of nice wine, pizza and a bag of corn chips. But yes no such thing as a glass of wine. But that is about as far as my drinking goes, unless of business then I let the Account exec pay ;o)

CabbageCat

Emp_Fab said:

I'm definitely feeling the effects this morning.  I could do with another two hours in bed.  I don't open the bottle with the intention of drinking it all.  Even if I have an actual plan to limit myself to say, half the bottle, it never works out like that.  Once the first glass is in me, I lose all self control.  It's no different from an open packet of biscuits.

If you know you aren't strong enough to lift a washing machine you don't commit to loading it into a car yourself. If you know you aren't strong enough to open a bottle of wine without drinking more of it than you want to you don't open it.

ESBlonde

Why not get a 'box' of wine in the fridge and just take a couple of glasses as you want it, that way a half empty bottle beside the arm chair isn't begging you to finish it. Some self control will be required not to keep getting up and walking to the fridge!
I tend to drink a small bottle of stella with my tea, sometimes two and sometimes none at all so these days I'm a moderate drinker, in the past I've spent a fortune being incapable of driving for several days at a time, bad choice in retrospect.

smigeon

Emp_Fab said:

I'm definitely feeling the effects this morning.  I could do with another two hours in bed.  I don't open the bottle with the intention of drinking it all.  Even if I have an actual plan to limit myself to say, half the bottle, it never works out like that.  Once the first glass is in me, I lose all self control.  It's no different from an open packet of biscuits.

Have you tried this to try to stop at half a bottle: at a time when you won't be drinking (e.g. just before you go to work, perhaps?) decant a bottle of wine equally into two smaller containers. Then, later on, when you start drinking from one of these, there's a clear and tangible psychological reminder that your sober intention was to drink only half the original bottle. Obviously this is easy to circumvent, but try it: you might be surprised. You also know you have more wine for tomorrow :-).