Sounds similar to my experience, except my AW doesn't really do much of anything constructive. We have, however, been down the road of giving up hard liquor and just drinking wine. We're in our second repeat of that pattern, and it's going pretty much as I expected. She's drinking a bottle of wine in a day now, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before she goes back to the vodka.
I hope you find a solution, but everything I've seen and heard here indicates that full recovery is the exception.