Advice for a first timer – unique scenario

My wife and I have never had alcohol (grew up heavily religious) and she would like to start trying some. Logically a wine cooler or hard lemonade makes sense, but won’t work (described below). Looking for some advice but have some guidelines:

First handful of times we’d like to be at home, not at a bar, to see the effect and understand limitations. She’d like to start with just getting buzzed and seeing how it affects her We’d like to only have alcohol in the home that is used for other purposes i.e. bourbon for cooking and vodka for homemade vanilla extract (super good btw). Mixes are okay and it seems screwdriver is an easy answer. Something that is palatable