alcoholic beverages
type: Concept
narrower: wine

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: wine

wine
type: Concept
broader: alcoholic beverages
definition: Wine has the paradoxical quality of being both ordinary and special: a simple food item to be consumed with a meal, it is also widely used as both a symbol in religious ritual and a means of changing human mood or consciousness. As a result, wine often has multiple meanings within consumer culture, connected to life and death, health and pollution, purity and spirituality, and conceptions of order and disorder. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Wine]