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* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Caesar}} Caesar III]]'', only the IdleRich (dwelling in villas or palaces) drink wine outside of Grand Festivals. Palace-dwelling patricians demand multiple wine options in your city, at least one of which needs to be a foreign import.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Caesar}} Caesar III]]'', only upper-class citizens (dwelling in villas or palaces) drink wine outside of Grand Festivals.

A SubTrope of DrinkBasedCharacterization. Compare FoodPorn, FrothyMugsOfWater (when substituted with "grape juice" for the kids), ExpensiveGlassOfCrap (for when someone tries to pass off cheap wine as the good stuff), FrenchCuisineIsHaughty (if the wine is French), SmokingIsGlamorous.

Whenever a character is shown drinking wine, it's usually a good sign that person is high class or sophisticated (or trying to come off as such), especially if the wine comes from their special private stock. The connotations of this can vary depending on the person. For protagonists, wine knowledge can show that the character is an OfficerAndAGentleman or a GentlemanAndAScholar, and serves to make the character look more worldly and refined. For villains, wine features prominently in introducing a ManOfWealthAndTaste, often sporting AGlassOfChianti. Either way, wine drinkers will almost always be {{Blue Blood}}s or obsessive snobs who take it [[SeriousBusiness 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).[[note]]There are actually plenty of red wines that go well with fish and white wines with meat, but don't expect the writers to know that.[[/note]] Expect to hear pretentious SommelierSpeak about rare vintages and the soil the grapes were grown in.

* Trip in ''VideoGame/{{Facade}}'' is kind of a dick on this subject. [[spoiler:However, due to his lower-class upbringing, he has a tendency to sneak down to a dingy bar in the bad part of the city and drink beer. He does ''not'' like to discuss this.]]

* In ''Manga/SoulHunter'', Choukoumei is often seen carrying a glass of red wine, fitting with his [[AgentPeacock sophisticated]] attitude. When he isn't, he is drinking tea.

'''Niles:''' You know very well that in 1982 there was a drought in Bourgogne. The locals dubbed it the Year of the Raisin.

* In ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', Yuuka both subverts and invokes the trope. She doesn't drink wine (she gets bad hangovers), but when she wants to comfort herself, she pours pinkish rosehip tea into a glass and swirls it around while contemplating stuff, because it makes her look cool.

* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'', both Tokiomi Tohsaka, distinguished mage and head of the Tohsaka family who always wears a sharp suit and a form of bow tie, and Gilgamesh, King of Heroes, are prone to doing this. At one point, Gilgamesh starts comparing Tokiomi's and Kirei's taste, stating that Tokiomi has more quantity but Kirei's is better quality. In the Banquet of Kings, Saber, Archer, and Rider drink wine from Gilgamesh's personal treasury out of gold cups as Gilly Boy didn't deem the cask of wine Rider brought as not good enough for kings to drink.

Whenever a character is shown drinking wine, it's usually a good sign that person is high class or sophisticated (or trying to come off as such), especially if the wine comes from their special private stock. The connotations of this can vary depending on the person. For protagonists, wine knowledge can show that the character is an OfficerAndAGentleman or a GentlemanAndAScholar, and serves to make the character look more worldly and refined. For villains, wine features prominently in introducing a ManOfWealthAndTaste, often sporting AGlassOfChianti. Either way, wine drinkers will almost always be {{Blue Blood}}s or obsessive snobs who take it [[SeriousBusiness 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).[[note]]There are actually plenty of red wines that go well with fish and white wines with meat, but don't expect the writers to know that.[[/note]] Expect to hear SommelierSpeak.

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, beer and spirits are still viewed as the primary "pedestrian" drinks in the Anglosphere, while wine is still associated with the upper classes, whether it be old money {{Socialite}}s or {{Bourgeois Bohemian}}s, and [[SocialClimber people trying to be like them]].