I try to have a glass of red wine daily but am not quite there yet, primarily because. I do not have an easy to use corkscrew so I cannot open some bottles and depend on others to do that for me. If someone can recommend a good solution for me so that I become indepent with my wine bottles, I would greatly appreciate your suggestions.

Wine does not interact with my medications in an untoward way: I am stable with wine or without wine. Just fine.

The only medication I take in an appreciable quantity is Lithium so I recently did searches for advice on alcohol consumption and Lithium in French. Moderate consumption was mostly advised, not abstinence. American authorities beg to differ, e.g. NAMI's fact sheet on Lithium advises abstinence. So it depends on whom you ask and cultural biases seem. To play as much of the role if not more than solid science.

A close friend of mind practices psychiatry in Russia. His MD is from Moscow and his continuing education is from Paris. He has not been educated in the States. He advised me that alcohol interaction is dangerous with two types of psychiatric drugs: those that cause extreme sedation such as clorazil and all benzos. I do not take those. I was only interested in interactions with Lithium. He said alcohol with Lithium is fine.