I went aboard a French Frigate in the Indian Ocean once back in the 70s. I swear they had a water type fountain that spewed out wine.
I guess their AOs had a separate bunker for wine. Talk about UnRep! ;-)
The Army was the same way, once the regimental commander showed up for Camerone day during an exercise in Valdehon, and before we started eating (the food was always incredible, and multi course, with red jacketed enlisted waiters) or listening to him, or anything else at the somewhat formal dinner (although we were in our work uniforms and would be returning to work), he made everyone fill their 8 ounce glass with wine, and chug it down, needless to say the wine flowed freely after that.
Their lunches and dinners in the military seemed to always last for 1 hour to 3 hours, they live at a different pace than us. Dinner was typically about 2 hours.