The moderate use of wine can be beneficial to our general health as the alcohol helps remove impurities from our blood and red wine contains antioxidants. Alcoholism has been a social problem throughout history and examples of dissipation are found in Scripture so your statement concerning our current society and alcohol is not totally accurate.
You might find this a better response to skeptics than what you have been using in the past:
Numbers 6:1-4
6:1 Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the LORD, 3 he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh or dried grapes. 4'All the days of his separation he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin. NAS
This, in my opinion, is more Biblically accurate since:
Leviticus 23:9-14
9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11'And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12'Now on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb one year old without defect for a burnt offering to the LORD. 13'Its grain offering shall then be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the LORD for a soothing aroma, with its libation, a fourth of a hin of wine. 14'Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. NAS
There are several references in the Torah concerning wine as a libation pleasing to God.