Ayurveda does not demonize alcohol. It just understands it clearly. Alcohol is heating, drying, and penetrating. It increases Pitta. It increases Vata. It decreases Kapha. These are facts about the substance.
If you are already hot and dry and anxious, alcohol makes you hotter, drier, and more anxious. If you are cold and sluggish, a small amount might help digestion. But for most modern people, especially if they are already overstimulated, alcohol moves in the wrong direction.
Here is what nobody wants to hear: if you are drinking wine every night to manage stress, you are making the stress worse. You are using something heating to calm a heated nervous system. It works temporarily through a kind of override. But the underlying problem gets deeper.
"Alcohol is not the enemy. But your body's relationship with alcohol might be telling you something important."
This does not mean never drink. But it means paying attention to why and how much. Are you drinking because you enjoy it? Or are you drinking to manage anxiety? Are you drinking occasionally? Or is it becoming a way to decompress from daily overwhelm?
Ayurveda would suggest: fix the overwhelm first. Sleep more. Work less. Create stability. Then see if you still need the alcohol the same way.