Wine Is Classy: Difference between revisions

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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 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).

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'': Such "grape juice" is a favorite drink of Lumiere's.

 

== Film ==

* [[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.

 

* 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.

* 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?!

* 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.

 

* Subverted in the song "Cabaret" in the musical ''[[Cabaret]]'' where wine drinking is associated with wild partying.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* 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 year's 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.

 

== Video Games ==

* 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.

* Dracula in ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]''. Until he throws the glass on the ground and starts fighting you.

* 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 Comics ==

 

== Web Original ==

* The Literal Video version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" mentions "drinking wine douchebags" as a bunch of preppies make a toast.

 

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