0 an alcoholic drink that is usually made from grapes, but can also be made from other fruits or flowers. It is made by fermenting the fruit with water and sugar: --
2 an alcoholic drink made from grapes, or less commonly an alcoholic drink made in a similar way but from other fruits: --
When illicit, as it must be in the wine poem, its transgressive nature is complete.
Sometimes, wine-shop keepers invited people to their establishments, either when they met in the street or at other public houses.
Precious metal coinages and the mass disbursements of imported wine, attested in a few regions archaeologically, fit comfortably into an analysis of this kind.
The design of a wine glass, for instance, may be driven by maintaining capacity as a constraint.
Your valuable wine has thus far remained untasted in consequence, with one notable exception.
It is precisely such a squandering of self-mastery, honor, reputation, and wealth that the wine poem depicts for its aesthetic purposes.
For the producer, the low quality strategy saves the extra cost of producing high quality wines.
As producers are similar, they all offer wine of intermediate quality.
