Good in moderation or is Alcohol just Alcohol?
I recently completed a documentary centering on a winemaker/Yogi/self proclaimed alchemist who says his wine can be used as a self development tool.
“AUM: You Are What You Drink” is the title.
The trailer can be checked out here - youtube[dot]com/theaumfilm
Alcohol is alcohol, and despite the hype, it’s simply a toxin from a pharmacological perspective. There’s a reason the gurus advised us against drinking alcohol in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.
Some tantrics agree with you though. Wine is one of the 5 panchamakaras along with meat, sex, fish, and parched grain. Even then, there’s the argument that these things are only meant to be symbolic - and not just an excuse to get drunk and screw.
Well, by the definition of the chemistry the alcohol is not only alcohol. A slight difference
between carbon or hydrogen molicules and their number changes the type of alcohol.
Science doesn’t accept spirtualism. 
Understand alchemy first.
And pharmaceuticals remember that carbondioxide is a most poisonous gas constantly occurring in your bodies.
At least wine is not made by perverse operations.
All personal opinion of course.
Oh, I will have to read up on this. I enjoy a nice dry chianti.
Well, drinking red wine in moderation is considered to be good for your heart. However, drinking too much of it is bound to have ill effects on your health.
Even a single alcohol molecule is harmful.
http://www.icap.org/PolicyTools/ICAPBlueBook/Annex1TheBasicsaboutAlcohol/tabid/116/Default.aspx