As Julian said, I am not a believer in giving up on wine in January, or any other time of the year, for that matter. Raised a Catholic, attracted to Protestant ethics but not that terribly religious I won't refer to the bible or any other document for this, and as a friend of Nietzsches writings on history I am also not quoting tradition as I believe tradition should be broken if you want to create something better.
What I aim for, in a rather boring way, is to never drink more than I enjoy and only to drink when I enjoy. The latter can be difficult socially (especially when like me you go to a lot of conferences and functions where agonisingly annoying Sauvignon Blanc or dramatically dull Pinot Grigio is served), but overall I am doing okay - even to a point where I sometimes don't drink any alcohol, shock and horror!, for four or five days before my wine rambler duty catches up with me again.
So basically, I feel no need not to drink in January, and the concept of "detox" is about as useful, as Julian noted, as the similarly stupid term "entschlacken" that was invented in German marketing a while ago (it means to consume whichever product happens to be advertised under that term in order to get some mysterious residue ("Schlacke" means "slag", "cinder" or "scoria") out of your body). And to me drinking some good wine over Christmas should, if anything, be a reason to drink some good wine in January too!
Moderation
As Julian said, I am not a believer in giving up on wine in January, or any other time of the year, for that matter. Raised a Catholic, attracted to Protestant ethics but not that terribly religious I won't refer to the bible or any other document for this, and as a friend of Nietzsches writings on history I am also not quoting tradition as I believe tradition should be broken if you want to create something better.
What I aim for, in a rather boring way, is to never drink more than I enjoy and only to drink when I enjoy. The latter can be difficult socially (especially when like me you go to a lot of conferences and functions where agonisingly annoying Sauvignon Blanc or dramatically dull Pinot Grigio is served), but overall I am doing okay - even to a point where I sometimes don't drink any alcohol, shock and horror!, for four or five days before my wine rambler duty catches up with me again.
So basically, I feel no need not to drink in January, and the concept of "detox" is about as useful, as Julian noted, as the similarly stupid term "entschlacken" that was invented in German marketing a while ago (it means to consume whichever product happens to be advertised under that term in order to get some mysterious residue ("Schlacke" means "slag", "cinder" or "scoria") out of your body). And to me drinking some good wine over Christmas should, if anything, be a reason to drink some good wine in January too!