On Becoming a Win-O

I've always preferred wine to beer, but after learning it's benefits, I especcially prefer vino. They've even found a way to make wine into a kind of 'girly drink' over here with their 'spritzers.' I ordered the 'spritzer friendly' over at the coppa cafe and was surprized to find so many big peices of strawberry and ice...it seemed more like a smoothie than an alcoholic beverage, and I could barely detect the wine. It was the most refreshing form of wine I've ever tasted. There are many options for wine over here. It seems a college-wallet-friendly-favorite is whatever you can get at the Pam for 1 euro(which as anyone will tell you, is cheaper than the water, but is pretty harsh going down.) Quality, again, is the main thing over here. I tryed the Moscato over at the Coppa Cafe, it was a fruity bubbly white wine that was sweeter than most I've tryed here. It reminded me of the cheep champagne I used to drink back in Fitchburg, only, this had different layers of flavor and after tastes that were so veried and exceptional. They love their wine over here as it's not uncommon to see people (after drinking a few glasses with their lunch) looking as gay as old saint nick: happily red-faced with that twinkle in their eye. Everyone's heard that doctors recomend a glass of red wine every day for good health. This combined with the smaller portions (enough wine with your meal to give you a buzz-but not make you emotional) makes for a nice stress-relieving, obviously socially acceptable break to the day-a behavior that some Americans might consider 'alcoholic.' Why are alcoholic spirits available at most small coffee and sandwitch shops here and not in the U.S.? I think in the states people are so stressed out from working their 9-5 and still living at a subsistance level that their only escape from that is to buy a 30-rack of cheep beer to drown their troubles. Again, evidence that Americans use alcohol (the last legal drug) as a way to de-stress, only after they have been stressed all day, or all week. More evidence that smaller portions, disspersed throughout the day of better quality beverages makes for a society who follow these age old cultures healthy, wealthy and wise.