not all Italians are fans of wine. though lots are.
at Sunday and Holiday meals at my Calabrese Nannas house, my Uncles would all drink beer and the lone bottle of Chianti or Muscatel, would be used for a toast, then ignored...my Napoliano Grandfather on my mother's side, drank very little if at all, wine or beer. His sons would drink beer if they drank.
though I knew lots of neighborhood Americans of Italian extraction who made wine and drank it liberally.
we would have called a guy like Gandolfini who consumed food and drink like a pig....a 'GAVONE!' (spelled Caffone)
The guy was a definite "CAVONE"! and glutton. Too many of these ego-maniacal Hollywood types adopt their alter-ego characters.