&gt;<i>More than once I&#x27;ve been up late at night, and felt like cooking something with wine</i><p>If this is habitual maybe you should, I don&#x27;t know, have a couple of bottles of wine on-hand for such occasions?<p>There is evidence that later hours of alcohol sale are related to increased violence, injury and incidence of drunk-driving.  Correlation is not causation and all that, but I&#x27;m sure people living in the vicinity of bars, or in college towns, aren&#x27;t swayed by your minor inconvenience.