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* Piedmon from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''. He even got to keep it in the dub, with none of the dub's infamous [[Frothy Mugs of Water]] lines.
* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', Anemone achieves the same imagery of drinking blood by eating marmalade.
* Alucard from ''[[Hellsing]]'', the trope image, is seen enjoying red wine on his throne more than once in there series. It is hinted it may be mixed with blood, or be blood entirely.
** The Major is another fine example, except with a glass of champagne.
* When Kanako of ''[[Maria Holic]]'' returns to her dorm room for the first time, she finds [[Villainous Crossdresser|Mariya]] sitting there. {{spoiler|It's Bordeaux.}}
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* Gakuto from ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]''.
* Evangeline of ''[[Negima]]'' does the "ungirly" version by often drinking red wine ([[Vain Sorceress|usually in the most refined way possible]]). She is partial to several varieties of rare alcohols though (also drunk in refined ways).
* Altena in ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]]'' not only drinks wine but also owns a private vineyard. She also picks up the grapes herself, and is implied to at least participate in the making of the wine, as well. All and all, she's one hard-working [[Big Bad]].
** Although to some extent this is a subversion, since the vineyard isn't used to demonstrate Altena's decadence or refinement, but rather meant to emphasize her [[Dissonant Serenity|preternatural humility]] and role as a [[The High Queen|Madonna figure]]. It takes a [[Zen Survivor|special]] [[Anti-Villain|kind]] of [[Big Bad]] to willingly do hard manual labour day in and day out, after all.
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'''s Giovanni sometimes is seen drinking some sort of alcohol, though it's never certain what sort it is.
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** For the love of all that is good, please rephrase that.
** [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Yeah, stroke the stem of that wine glass...]]
* Pegasus of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' loved to [[Villains Out Shopping|drink wine and read comic books]], but the censors turned his wine into [[Frothy Mugs of Water|"fruit juice"]].
** Which actually works with his character because he acts childish for most of his on-screen time.
** And led to a great joke in one fanfic: his assistant Croquet tells him that he was willing to look the other way regarding the drinking back when he was calling it wine, but calling it juice is introducing unstable behavior that requires an intervention.
** Also, Mai Valentine on a couple occasions.
* [[Big Bad|Father]] does this in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. It's not wine, though, nor even blood, but ''souls'' {{spoiler|- from Greed's Philosopher's Stone}}.
* [[Big Bad|Dilandau]] from ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' has a taste for red wine.
* In [[Dragon Ball]], [[Big Bad|Freeza]] is seen sipping red wine (or whatever he drinks that looks the same) in a similar fashion in early scenes and flashbacks during the Freeza Saga.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the character Inazuma takes this to the extreme, as he[[Gender Bender|(or she)]] carries a goblet of red wine at ''all'' times, ''even while fighting''.
* In ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', the great Pope have a glass too, but [[A Glass in the Hand|broke it in his fist]] when he start to be upset.
* [[Lupin III]] finds out about the tasting of a bottle of wine made for Napoleon, so he decides to swap it for a bottle of plonk. {{spoiler|The guests are fooled by the cheap wine, but the real wine spoiled long ago.}}
* The head of the committee after the protagonists in ''[[Choujin Gakuen]]''. At this point in the story, the heroes haven't met her face to face and she watching the fight from a button on the minions she sent after them. But Adam manages to guess correctly that she holding one just based on her condescending tone.
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== Film ==
* In ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'', Hannibal Lecter famously announces, "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti," before making a hideous slurping sound.
* In ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'', the Merovingian sips wine while holding court in the restaurant.
* In ''[[Modesty Blaise (film)|Modesty Blaise]]'' [[The Movie]], Gabriel (played by [[Flamboyant Gay|Dirk Bogarde]]) lounges with a glass of ''blue'' wine while dispensing his evil orders.
* In ''The Island'', [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Dr. Merrick is seen watching the Lottery in his private abode, drinking from a wine glass.
* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] does this a number of instances.
** In ''[[From Russia with Love]]'', senses something isn't quite right with [[The Dragon|Red Grant]] when he orders red wine, specifically [[A Glass of Chianti]]... with fish.
** At the end of ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'', 007 defeats the [[Evil Duo|bad]] [[Camp Gay|guys]] using his knowledge of fine wines.
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* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' there's a wineglass in the vicinity of Jafar, but before he can drink it Jasmine throws it in his face.
* In ''[[Daybreakers]]'', this is done with actual blood by the high-level vampire Bromley by draining a human victim's blood into a wine glass.
** And don't forget [[Interview with the Vampire|Lestat]]. Anybody wanna taste some rat blood?
== Literature ==
* Funny enough, in the original novel of ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' it was a "big Amarone" and not Chianti. Still a red wine from Italy, though. The change in the film was probably a case of [[Small Reference Pools]].
* The titular Count in ''[[Dracula]]'', [[I Do Not Drink Wine|does not eat or drink]]. He does however know enough about fine wines to provide Johnathan Harker with "a bottle of excellent Old Tokay" to have with supper.
* Double Subverted in ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', where the human subculture of vampires are considered freaks because they file down their teeth, wear bright colors, stay up past noon, and [[I Do Not Drink Wine|drink... ''wine'']].
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* Lex Luthor from ''[[Smallville]]''. In fact, most of the time you can clearly see the crystal decanter in his living room.
* Adelei Niska sips on an unidentified drink in the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "War Stories" while watching Mal being [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortured]].
* [[The Master]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has always been fond of quality drinks (and cigars, of course). He's shown sipping whisky in ''The Time Monster'', wine from fine goblets in various Ainley!Master stories and glugging wine or whisky in [[Doctor Who
* ''[[Farscape]]'' promotional images occasionally feature Scorpius holding a wine glass of an unnamed alien vintage (in the images where he's not [[Knife Nut|holding some kind of bladed instrument]], of course).
* Vesper Abbadon and Silas Benjamin in ''[[Kings]]''. Silas tests Abbadon's clarity of thought by having him identify a rare wine. "Chocolate, cassis . . . vines grown in clay."
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** It's actually just an unidentified brown liquid, which has led to some fans joking it's chocolate milk.
*** Given the games' tendency to have [[Frothy Mugs of Water|grape juice]] in wine bottles, it would not surprise people if it was canon.
* If you steal from Dracula in ''[[Castlevania]]: Curse of Darkness'', you will find that he drinks tomato juice. Now that's blackmail material.
* In the final boss battle in ''Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow'''s Julius Mode, Soma Cruz [[Slouch of Villainy|lounges on Dracula's throne]] while sipping a glass of wine as you enter. He dramatically tosses it to the ground before rising to fight you.
** Soma is seen in a similar position in his bad ending of ''Aria of Sorrow''.
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== Web Comics ==
* Miho's character in the [[Megatokyo]] online game/backstory manages to play this as [[A Glass of Chianti|A Goblet Of Chianti]]. The line ("Ah, but there is still the wine...") and [[Manipulative Bastard|the]] [[Technically a Smile|expression]] clinch it.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' there's only one way to cap General Tarquin's [[Magnificent Bastard|most magnificently evil speech ever]]: [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html a single smooth sip of his drink.]
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