We have used psychophysical tests to evaluate the spatial vision of 15 subjects with clinical history of chronic alcoholism by measuring luminance contrast sensitivity and color discrimination. The subjects were initially submitted to clinical inquiry and ophthalmological exam. Then, they performed the psychophysical tests that measured their spatial contrast thresholds using sine wave gratings of different spatial frequencies and contrasts, as well as their chromatic discrimination thresholds using the Mollon-Reffin test. For the analysis of results, subjects were divided in three groups according to their age and compared with controls with similar age. Two thirds of subjects had some degree of color vision loss, which was quite severe in seven cases. All subjects had normal luminance contrast sensitivity. The results suggest that color vision changes related to chronic alcoholism can occur in the absence of impairment of spatial luminance contrast sensitivity and thus it is an important aspect to be considered in the clinical evaluation of this condition.