we will have wine on a Sunday if we are cooking a lunch for family or friends, this is often an early start, breakfasts, joint effort, (no pun intended) then noon we might have a Tio Pepe with ice, with family, friends arrive shortly after bring wine.
In our utility room we have a fridge freezer for drink and drugs, ice and fruit, so chilled wine always, its lovely to have a chilled wine or red if we are cooking beef, then neither of us drink with the meal, if guests want to, they will -
I don’t know about more acceptable - maybe? it’s more convivial?
my OH refers to it as a reward, we work six days, a glass of delicious wine or champagne is lovely - but then we lived for many years in France, wine, cheese, bread, salad, red meat, fresh fish, sunshine, wine, Pernod, Cognac, part of their life, they do not need to overindulge, it is always there.
The only alcoholics we encountered were English. One woman started her day with pineapple juice laced with vodka. Her skin was terrible. One would start drinking at 6pm carry on without eating until the early hours, calories from the wine, so many succumbed.
we will drink sparkling water with slices of lime lemon orange of an evening
we don’t drink for the sake of it
neither do we give two hoots what others perceive as ‘acceptable’
see my post ^^^