Wine and Children???

[Thomas]

Being of Italian-American stock I can attest to having been fed wine at age 8 (cut with water). It did little to dull my appetite to sow wild oats when younger, but I certainly ain't no alcoholic here in my dotage.

Bucko got the Italian wine/alcohol stats close to correct. An interesting aside to the story: a study done many years ago that tracked Italians who left Italy for the U.S. found that alcoholism rates rose on this side of the water. Curious, no? Perhaps the Italians started to dabble in harder liquor over here.