WINE
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Wine is an alcoholic beverage resulting from
the fermentation of grapes or grape juice. Vino Greco is the name of a wine style which
originated, at least 2,150 years ago, as an Italian imitation of the sweet, strong Greek wines that were exported
to Italy at the period of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Its names in other languages were: Latin
vinum graecum; English Greek, greke, wine greke; French vin grec.
Wine-like beverages can also be made from other fruits or from flowers or
grains.
In this sense the word wine is used with a qualifier, for example,
elderberry wine. The word wine by itself always means grape wine. This terminology is often
defined by law.
Alternately, those wishing to port a Windows application to a
Unix-like system can compile it against the Wine libraries.
The beverage portion of communion symbolizing the blood of Christ; equivalent to the grape juice used in some
protestant churches. Communion wine is fermented grape juice and is therefore alcoholic. Wine and vineyards were
symbols of happiness and signs of God's blessing in the Promised Land. Mixing wine and water has roots in
historical practicality and theological insight. Historically, wine carried by the traveler was mixed with the
water of the desert to purify it.
Wine Is Not an Emulator - a set of Linux system calls which duplicate the functionality of equivalent Windows
system calls, allowing Windows applications to run under Linux
Used as an emblem of life and spirit, as in the Mysteries, where at one stage of the initiatory rites wine and
bread were offered to the candidate as symbols of spirit and body, the meaning being the same as that conveyed
elsewhere by fire and water, or blood and flesh. It was necessary for the aspirant to be perfected in both
ways.
Wine is made from a variety of ingredients which is then fermented where the alcohol level is 12-18% naturally
unless fortified.
A beverage produced from the fermentation of grapes. Fruit wines are produced from the fermentation of fruits other
than grapes.
The milk of Venus.
The drink of choice of the Roman world, as with that of the Greeks, was wine. It was more than a mere drink, but a
sign of civilization. It was often spiced or sweetened with honey (mulsum) and generally watered down. In Rome it
was on sale everywhere and there were almost 200 varieties to choose from. The best wines, such as Caecuban,
Setian, Massic or Falernian, came from the border regions between Latium and Campania.
Wine can be added to your bread. Just replace some or all of the liquid in your recipe with wine 1 to 1. Remember,
if you don't like to drink it, you won't want to eat it.
An alcoholic drink made by fermenting the juice of grapes or other fruits. [Old English wn , from Latin vinum
(source of English vine and vinegar). Ultimately from a pre-Indo-European word that is also the ancestor of Greek
oinos (source of oenophile).]
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