Health and well being – what advice on weekly alcohol units means to a professional drinker’
by October 18th 2007
All this talk of units has me worried. I was very depressed by the recent news that over 22 units a week takes us into hazardous drinking territory. With all this global warming, wines are getting stronger and one bottle of wine now constitutes 9 units, so that’s under two and half bottles a week. This is not good news any week but very bad news this week. We have the rugby world cup final on Saturday which might take up a few so I need to pace myself but worryingly tonight I have a Burgundy dinner which will be attended by 6 members of the wine trade at Ransome’s Dock. We are all bringing a bottle of red and a bottle of white. If we get through that lot (and we have never failed before) that’s 18 units taken care of. That would have left 4 for Saturday if I hadn’t been out to dinner twice this week already…
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Tom: your worries remind me of the French banker who only drank wine because he was scared of drinking the NY tap water. When quizzed by some clever young American bankers as to what he used to brush his teeth, he replied "Vor zat, I use a petit Chablis".