The Loneliest Generation: Why Wine Might Be Part of the Answer

The Surgeon General says loneliness is as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Young people are spending 70% less time together in person. And at the exact same moment, we'veconvinced them to stop drinking — removing one of humanity's oldest tools for connection.In this solo episode, I make a case. Not for drinking more. But for understanding what we've lost, and what wine might help us find again. Wine as social infrastructure. Wine as a practice of presence. Wine as a reason to stay at the table a little longer.This isn't a defense of alcohol. It's an honest conversation about connection in a world that's starving for it.