In praise of wine “communitas”

Wine comes ready made with rituals that give it meaning and value. We're idiots to try and throw that away.

Everything we know about human social behaviour suggests that groups are bonded by defining themselves against outsiders and by practising distinctive rituals and beliefs that may strike the uninitiated as illogical or “extreme”.

A quote from the excellent James Marriott in The Times this week. Not on wine, but on the future of Christianity. And just lik…