Okay I will give you that, statistically a small to moderate amount of alcohol in a day can be beneficial for your cardiovascular system because it acts as a solvent and it can help dissolve plaque in your veins and arteries. Now in France and Italy, I'd be willing to bet they have some pretty stringent regulations around the quality of the product that you're allowed to sell with regards to wine, considering how much of a integral part of their culture it is. I can't touch it though because my gut has been completely fucked by the food here in the States with all the additives and GMO bullshit and pesticides that are illegal and pretty much every other country on the planet, with our monoculture crops that strip all the nutrients from the soil until we have to add petroleum based fertilizers in order to continue to farm, without using any crop rotation or anything like that. From my perspective, I can't even have a sip of alcohol without having violent painful diarrhea and severe bloating for the rest of the night and the next day. Overall though I don't think that the mild benefit to your cardiovascular system is worth all the possible damage you could be doing to every other system in your body by imbibing. If it's to the point of intoxication then I don't think it's worth it because after a certain point you're actually hardening your arteries with that shit because you'll get a build up of scar tissue in your heart veins and arteries.