Wine
Wine was a drink made from pressed fruit, usually some form of grape. It was commonly found on Earth. The Wine Lords were famed throughout the Galaxy for their wines. However, society collapsed when they were convicted of mislabelling wine. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)
According to Richard Mace, wine tasted like "nectar", he claimed this to Adric after looting a manor's cellar. (TV: The Visitation)
Several incarnations of the Doctor enjoyed drinking wine, with the third incarnation of the Doctor in particular enjoying a glass or two of red wine while guarding Auderly House, saying to Jo; "That's a most good-humoured wine. A touch sardonic, perhaps, but not cynical. A most civilised wine, one after my own heart." (TV: Day of the Daleks) The Fourth Doctor described 1979 as more of a "table wine" of a year. (TV: City of Death) The First and Second Doctors also enjoyed a drink of wine, consuming wine with notable figures such as Nero during a feast (TV: The Romans) and also on various planets and whilst being led into a trap of the Daleks in Theodore Maxtible's house. (PROSE: Twin Piques, TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
By his ninth incarnation the Doctor could identify the year and place of origin of wine by its taste. (PROSE: The Clockwise Man)
The Eleventh Doctor did not enjoy wine, spitting it back into the glass after taking a sip when given some at the house of Craig Owens. (TV: The Lodger) At Lake Silencio, the Eleventh Doctor brought a bottle that he said was thrown at him by Napoleon to drink at a picnic with Amy Pond, Rory Williams and River Song, but again spat it out, stating before he did that he must have tried it sometime in his life. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
Types of wine
Fortified wines, like sherry and vermouth were wines with an added liquor.
Champagne, sometimes known as "sparkling wine" was a wine with carbon dioxide in it, making it bubbly. It was often used for a celebration such as Christmas or to celebrate the end of a particular event.
Red wine
- Sour red wine was on offer in Irongron's castle. The third incarnation of the Doctor also drank several goblets while with Lord Wessex. (TV: The Time Warrior)
- Mehendri Solon gave the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith some red wine when they were in his house on Karn. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)
- While in the past of the Gateway, The Fourth Doctor ate and drank wine with Biroc and other Tharils. He also used the idea of overfilling one of the Tharils' goblets with wine to illustrate a point. (TV: Warriors' Gate)
- The Fourth Doctor and Romana drank red wine while celebrating a victory over the King Vampire. They later drank a wine of lower quality in the House of Zarn. The Eighth Doctor also drank after saving the Fourth's life. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
- Amy Pond bought a bottle of wine to share with Vincent van Gogh in 1890 France. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor)
White wine
- Whilst at the Braxiatel Collection, Bernice Summerfield drank Craxiatanian Chardonay. (PROSE: Theatre of War)
- Bernice enjoyed a good German wine on a hot summer's day. (PROSE: Strange England)
Non-grape based wines
- Chris Cwej got drunk on melon wine and had his right ear pierced prior to their arrival in the 1980s. (PROSE: Damaged Goods)
Wine in general
- The third incarnation of the Doctor was also offered wine while at the Wholeweal community. (TV: The Green Death)
- According to the reminiscence of the Sixth Doctor, Azmael and the Fourth Doctor drank extensively one night near a fountain. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)
- Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton drank some wine whilst in a Roman villa. Vicki and her poisoner friend attempted to kill Nero by putting poison in his wine goblet. (TV: The Romans)
- Jamie McCrimmon drank wine while on an unnamed planet. (PROSE: Twin Piques)
- Duggan and Romana drank wine following their failed attempt at stopping the theft of the Mona Lisa whilst in Paris. (TV: City of Death)
Wine with a meal
Wine was often consumed with a meal, when preparing to have the Ninth Doctor over for dinner, Jackie Tyler asked if he drank, to which Rose replied that he did. (TV: World War Three) Later when the Ninth Doctor dined with Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen at a restaurant in Cardiff, he intended at least to drink wine. However, Blon poisoned his glass of wine. Realising this, the Doctor swapped his glass with Blon's. (TV: Boom Town)
Evelyn Smythe drank red wine during a meal with Charles Darwin in an attempt to avoid the various turtle-based dishes. (AUDIO: Bloodtide) One Peladon, Bernice Summerfield consumed a lot of wine during a meal with King Tarrol, seemingly to trick a pair of accompanying Ice Warriors into thinking she was drunk (she wasn't). (PROSE: Legacy)
Drunkenness from wine
Susan drank wine whilst on the planet Avalon, explaining to Ian Chesterton that she couldn't get drunk unless she wanted to. Their concern was due to wine (and other alcoholic beverages) had on humans. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice) Bernice Summerfield once got drunk on wine with Evelyn Smythe. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
The Tenth Doctor, while acting drunker than he was, used the wine he had brought back from a party in France to disable the Clockwork Robots and rescue Rose and Mickey. He also claimed to have just invented at that same party the banana daiquiri years ahead of its time. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
Wine storage
Wine and other alcoholic beverages were often kept in cellars, in the Third Doctor noted that Sir Reginald Styles' cellar at Auderly House was "impeccable", Jo Grant and himself were also tied up in the cellar by the time travelling guerrillas from an alternate 22nd century Earth. (TV: Day of the Daleks) The Seventh Doctor kept a fully stocked cellar at his house; Smithwood Manor where he had wines from every conceivable century on Earth, wines from Ribos and champagnes from Manussa. (PROSE: Decalog 2: Lost Property)
Wine interactions
Champagne taken with level 6 retcon made everyone at Gwen and Rhys Williams' wedding fall asleep and forget the day's strange events. (TV: Something Borrowed)
Medicine
The Squire drank wine for "medicinal reasons". (TV: The Visitation)
