Hey JT - I've done it both ways - I have gone cold turkey and tapered. If you want to taper - in my experience, you have to really keep a count of how many drinks you take a day and go SLOWLY down. You aren't drinking to get drunk (which is very hard) but you are trying to keep the worst of the withdraw symptoms away.
It's not magic - but it can be done. A lot of countries won't prescribe benzos to get you safely stopped and people have to do this or go cold turkey.
Again, just my experience.