Ten Reasons to Drink Wine for Breakfast . . .

[Rebel Rose]

1. The usual, and some unusual, sparklers with a celebratory breakfast.

2. A 3 am post-crush meal of omelette and wine.

3. My black kitten, Diablo, leaps into our bed with . . . a live mouse!! Which he turns loose so he can play with it. And in the ensuing pandemonium and shrieking proceeds to lose it in the bedclothes! So at 5:45 am I am having a little tipple of the house viognier/roussanne blend.

Who needs the other 7 reasons . . .

[Peter the eater]

In my family we drink wine for breakfast once a year on December25th. I prepare a tray of flutes containing sparkling wine (usually $10 Spanish) and fresh-squeezed orange juice.

Mmmmmmimosa!

[Don Giovanni]

Mary,

After staying up all night working a glass of vino in the am helps me sleep.

[GordonCooks]

I quit making excuses years ago..........

[Busboy]

My wife, on tasting a good but undistinguished prosecco: "It'd make a decent breakfast wine."

Reason #4: Uncontrolled Francophilia. If sausage, crusty bread and red wine is a good enough breakfast for those old guys at the market cafe, it's good enough for me.

ETA In our household, a baguette -- or better yet, a ficelle -- sliced lengthwise, buttered and seved with rounds of hard sausage and a glass of red wine is known as the "French Trucker's Breakfast," based on an account I read somewhere of a trip through the Rugnis wholesale market near Paris. In the piece, a group of truckers, having driven all night to get their goods to the market before dawn, were described as standing at a small bar planted amongst the hubbub of the market enjoying sausage sandiches and wine for breakfast, their work being done for the moment. Seemed like an apt reward (though, I actually usually have it for lunch).

[Rebel Rose]

The owner/winemaker of an old central coast winery came to visit us a few weeks ago. The owner is a tall, elegant first-generation Italian and he told us that in his village in Italy (didn't catch the region), the only time the men drank white wine was when they gathered at the local bar before church on Sunday.

[Daniel Rogov]

Even today in many parts of France, men and women will make their way to their neighborhood cafe, there to take a place at "the brass" (the bar) to have either a small glass of marc or a glass of white wine, only then to follow that with their first coffee and croissants of the day.

As to needing an excuse to drink wine with breakfast.....none needed.

[Rehovot]

Even today in many parts of France, men and women will make their way to their neighborhood cafe, there to take a place at "the brass" (the bar) to have either a small glass of marc or a glass of white wine, only then to follow that with their first coffee and croissants of the day.

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(I thought this was "au zinc"?)

My ideal weekend morning breakfast-in-bed tray has champagne, a grapefruit half with a spoon of honey, a toasted baguette, and some soft cheese. But just champagne would be fine with me.

[SBonner]

#5 Champagne and croissants are a great pairing

Stephen Bonner

Vancouver

[David McDuff]

#6) A good glass of Moscato d'Asti. Why eat fruit for breakfast when you can drink it? And at 5 or 6% abv, it's unlikely to throw a wrench into the works for the remainder of the day.