WINE

There is some interesting nomenclature regarding wine in ancient times.

For example:

A WINE. At the old universities a once common name for a wine-party.

WINE OF APE. In Chaucer's Prologue to the Manciple's Tale, the Manciple says," I trow that ye have drunken wine of ape" - i.e. wine to make you foolishly drunk; in French vin de singe.

SATAN, according to Rabbinical tradition, came to Noah when he was planting vines, and slew a lamb, a lion, a pig and an ape, to teach Noah that man, in turn, reveals the characteristics of all four according to the amount of liquor consumed.

TO PUT WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES. To impose new practices, principles, etc., on people or things too old or unfit to stand the strain. A refernce to the unwisdom of putting new fermentations in old wine-skins which are bound to crack under the pressure.

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles; else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but the put new wines into new bottles, and both are preserved. Matt. ix, 17