Low Alcohol

For more moderate wines to drink with a meal, try rieslings and silvaners from Germany, and vinho verde from Portugal. Stefan Johnson/Unsplash

The world’s most-consumed liquid is water, and the drawbacks involved with it are so limited as to be utterly obscure.

By contrast, there has been an overwhelming controversy for the last several eons about the risks and potential benefits of consumption of all other drinks, from cola to coffee to kombucha. And beverages that contain alcohol come in for special criticism.