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[[File:Arnold Böcklin (3)Selbsbildnis m Weinglas.JPG|thumb|400px|As long as you're painting a self-portrait, you may as well [[Rule of Cool|make yourself look classy.]]]]
Whenever a character is shown drinking wine, it's usually a good sign that person is high class or sophisticated. The connotations of this can vary depending on the person. For protagonists, wine knowledge can show that the character is [[An Officer and a Gentleman]] or a [[Gentleman and a Scholar]], and serves to make the character look more worldly and refined. For villains, wine features prominently in introducing a [[
▲Whenever a character is shown drinking wine, it's usually a good sign that person is high class or sophisticated. The connotations of this can vary depending on the person. For protagonists, wine knowledge can show that the character is [[An Officer and a Gentleman]] or a [[Gentleman and a Scholar]], and serves to make the character look more worldly and refined. For villains, wine features prominently in introducing [[A Man of Wealth and Taste]], often sporting [[A Glass of Chianti]]. Either way, wine drinkers will almost always be [[Blue Blood]]s or obsessive snobs who take it [[Serious Business|way too seriously.]] They'll consider it a ''blasphemy'' to drink white wine with beef or red wine with fish, pork, or poultry (a "true" wine connoisseur knows it's the other way around) or to serve sparkling wine at room temperature (again, a "true" connoisseur knows you serve it chilled).
This trope varies widely by culture. In most of Western Europe, particularly in the south, wine is viewed as a fairly mundane and commonplace beverage (to the point where wine is served in McDonalds), particularly in countries with a strong wine-making tradition like Spain, France, and Italy.
In the new world, wine making is a relatively recent phenomenon, and its association with the old world gave it some elitist connotations. While this has lessened
Wine has yet to gain the same degree of popularity as beer and sake in the East, but red wine is becoming increasingly popular among the middle class in China due to this trope. China is actually the fifth largest wine producing country in the world,<ref>After Italy, France, Spain, and the United States</ref> though nearly all of it is produced for domestic consumption, and so has yet to gain the same sort of international reputation as major producers like France and Italy.
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Can accompany [[Food Porn]]. Can overlap with [[Frothy Mugs of Water]] when substituted with "grape juice" for the kids. Subtrope of [[Drink Order]]. In the case of French wines, it can overlap with [[French Cuisine Is Haughty]].
This trope can also be [[Inversion|inverted]] by "bum wines", which are the wine counterpart to [[A Tankard of Moose Urine]]
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▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'': Such "grape juice" is a favorite drink of Lumiere's.
* The manga ''[[Kami no Shizuku]] (The Drops Of God)'' revolves around the wine community. One story arc features a pair of brothers with [[Slobs Versus Snobs|dueling wine stores]], one fully embraces this trope and stocks mainly high class French wines, while the other mainly looks for bargain-price every day wines.
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* ''[[One Piece]]'': Dracule Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman, when not out slaughtering pirates, can be seen relaxing at his mansion with a book and [[A Glass of Chianti|a nice glass of red wine.]]
** Actually this Trope was parodied early on in the series where a Navy officer tried to impress his date by [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|rhapsodizing about the wine]]. Since his waiter was [[Deadpan Snarker|Sanji]], it naturally didn't end well for him.
** Crocodile, a [[
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'': A number of episodes, movies, and [[Original Video Animation]]s have significant plot points concerning the tasting of fine wines.
** One of the characters in the second [[Non-Serial Movie]], ''The Fourteenth Target'', is an expert sommelier who is able to identify the exact vintage of wine by its sight, smell, and taste. {{spoiler|It turns out the sommelier is the culprit, and is in part taking revenge for an accident that robbed him of his sense of taste.}}
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* France of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' got one wine drinking scene in the anime.
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* [[Dracula]] [[I Do Not Drink... Wine|never drinks... wine.]] He just offers it to his guests.
* ''[[Sideways]]'': So much so, almost to the point where there's more about wine than the people. Considering most of the story involves wine lovers touring the wine country, this is to be expected.
* In the 'Black Cat' segment of Roger Corman's ''Poe's Tales of Terror'', [[Vincent Price]] plays a cultured oeinophile who gets into an identifying contest with slobbish drunkard [[Peter Lorre]]. Price swirls, smells, swishes a taste in his mouth while inhaling - Lorre guzzles back the entire glass, and matches Price glass by glass.
* Inverted in ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' when a sommelier (played by [[Steve Martin]]) offers Kermit and Miss Piggy a wine from "the vineyards of Idaho" and asks if Kermit would like to sniff the bottlecap.
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* Discussed on an episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' where Lister complains about "total smegheads" who always drink wine. "What'll you have on your cornflakes, darling? Oh, I'll have some WINE!"
* The animated intro to the "Mystery" segment of ''[[Masterpiece Theater]]'' featured a widow drinking wine at someone's grave.
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* ''[[Frasier]]'' does this. He and Niles even were part of a wine club.
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* Oenophile<ref>"wine lover"</ref> ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey]]'', who takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. References come up periodically, such as his asking Harriet Vane to wear a wine-coloured dress and specifying the shade by specifying a vintage in ''Have His Carcase''. It's a major plot point in the short story "The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste", in which Wimsey goes undercover as Death Bredon and has his palate tested at a blind tasting; he has to name the producer and vintage (year of production) for a series of wines, some of them quite obscure.
* Gilgamesh in ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', being the arrogant king he is, is often shown drinking wine to highlight this fact. His [[Hyperspace Arsenal|Gate of Babylon]] also [[Mundane Utility|contains a high-class wine cellar]] with wine brewed by the gods themselves.
* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', not only that the members of the Inner Party (the political elite of the totalitarian state) are assigned much better dwellings, clothes, food, coffee, chocolate and tobacco than the members of the Outer Party (i.e. the mere [[White Collar Worker]]s), but also while the members of the Outer Party drink gin (and the blue-collar ''proles'' drink beer!), the members of the Inner Party drink... wine, what else?!
* Played with in ''[[
** Also played with by Lord Vetinari, who normally drinks water, except in ''[[
* ''[[Honor Harrington]]''{{'}}s William Alexander is a real connoisseur of the fine vintages and explicitly calls other drinks uncultured and low-class. Played with in that it is his older brother, Hamish, who holds the family title, and he doesn't drink anything except beer. Ham even [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] over his brother's love of wine in one of their frequent after-dinner banters.
* Shan from the ''[[Liaden Universe]]'' walks around with a glass of red wine ''all the time.'' Does he even drink from it?
* Shown in most (if not all) of the novels in the [[Aubrey-Maturin]] series, which echo British naval traditions from the Age of Sail. The foremast jacks (common seamen and able seamen) get beer or grog (half rum, half water, with some lime juice) with their meals, while the officers drink a few bottles of wine with each meal... until they run out while at sea, at which point everybody drinks grog.
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* Subverted in the song "Cabaret" in the musical ''[[Cabaret]]'' where wine drinking is associated with wild partying.
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* In ''[[Traveller|Traveller: Nobles]]'' [[The Emperor]] is described as drinking a Hungarian vintage that is shipped all the way from [[Planet Terra]] in about a
▲* In ''[[Traveller|Traveller: Nobles]]'' [[The Emperor]] is described as drinking a Hungarian vintage that is shipped all the way from [[Planet Terra]] in about a years voyage. In a subversion the Sword Worlders consider wine an unmanly drink. A proper Sword World aristocrat drinks Lambic Red beer from the planet of Gungnir, prepared by a special process that has made Sword Worlder beer well-famed.
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* In ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'', Wine is the only alcoholic beverage that should be offered as a gift to the [[Cool Old Lady]] Wynne rather than to [[The Alcoholic]] Oghren.
* In ''[[Apollo Justice]]'', Phoenix drinks [[Frothy Mugs of Water|grape juice]] while playing poker in the seedy back of some bar, before murder happens. The grape juice bottles prove crucial to the case.
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* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Lilly Satou, an elegant and classy [[Yamato Nadeshiko]], takes a liking to wine after her older sister Akira brings some to her best friend Hanako's birthday party, and drinks it on two other occasions in her route. Akira, who is much less refined, says she is more of a beer person.
== [[Web
* The "grape juice" variant shows up in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]].'' In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E05 Sisterhooves Social|Sisterhooves Social]]", Applejack and Applebloom throw a lot of grapes into what is clearly a traditional open wine fermentation cask used for grape stomping, and then jump in to crush them.▼
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', [http://egscomics.com/?date=2003-06-27 the presence of a glass of wine in Mrs. Pompoms hand] seems to be an example of the high society version.
* ''[[Nectar of the Gods]]'' is about the bartending world, so it's to be expected.
* In a side story of ''Ragged Edges'' [https://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/art/Tie-one-on-1-703026319 here], Major Lockwood explains to her [[Commissar]] one fine point of drinking wine (it's about glass).
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* The Literal Video version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" mentions "drinking wine douchebags" as a bunch of preppies make a toast.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* The "grape juice" variant shows up in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]].'' In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E05 Sisterhooves Social|Sisterhooves Social]]", Applejack and Applebloom throw a lot of grapes into what is clearly a traditional open wine fermentation cask used for grape stomping, and then jump in to crush them.
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