Wine for Sinners, Wine for Saints

Wine has been a symbol for good and evil across the span of time. From Bacchus to the Egyptians to the Romans to the Pope, wine has served to draw in and reveal the sinner or to partake in the holy rites.

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The value of wine to society in the spiritual, religious, political and economic senses have guided history. Follow British history and you'll see the ever evolving tastes of the British empire as it moved from French Claret to Spanish Madeira to Portugal's Porto-- and that's just political history.

The symbolism of wine and its power is a single mythological thread from Bacchus to Jesus Christ.