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Wine is a beverage that deserves much larger space in the researchers’
agendas. As a beverage for body and soul it is present in every religion in the East
and West. And the greatest historical stronghold is the Mediterranean. In the
Christian religion wine is on the table of our messiah Jesus. Jesus says to the
apostles: “this piece of bred is part of my body, and this drink is my blood with
which you will communicate trough the ages”. Romans say: “in vino veritas”. And
the ancient Macedonians celebrate wine through svetkovini, celebrations dedicated
to the God Dionysus. Dionysus is actually Dios by Nisa, area inhabited by mixed
Macedonian and Thracian population. He is God of nature’s awakening in spring.
The dynasty of the Aygs celebrated Dionysus through the March’s jubilations,
festivals, called martinki. Through the Thracians, even today in Bulgaria this
custom called martie, martinki is still preserved. Wine is present not only in the
rituals and religious rites but also in the secular happenings. During marriage
proposals, wedding receptions, baptisms even at funeral rituals wine is always
dominant as beverage. The wine cult is strongly present in the artistic circles. Our
icon painters in the Middle Ages used wine instead of water to mix the colours and
also their ascetic food consisted of bred and wine. Artists consider wine as the
strongest mediator in releasing the creative genius, which rests deep in the
psychological constitution of the human. Today wine is considered as a drink with
bounding and relaxing abilities. Its relaxing strength is crucial for the positive
outcome in the close communications, free of conflicts. Wine, which positively
affects humans, is in biological correlation with the ability of the liver to process it.
It is considered that an optimal quantity of wine consumed without consequences to
the organism is 300 to 500ml. Wine in History, beside being beverage, also
represented an eternal topic in the artists works who identified their own gift with
the gift given by God. In the world’s universal codex of behavior, toasting with a
drink means making noise that in a mythological sense and also in the pagan rituals
means expulsion of the forces of evil, or in modern terms expulsion of the negative
energy. Wine was a challenge for the furniture designers and also the designing of
the shape of the storage containers, the transport containers or the consumption
containers. In the middle Ages the consumption culture reaches its greatest
expansion. The attitude towards wine, the ways of consumption and the lavish
décor of the interior where is being kept adds a special touch to the wine.
Consuming wine represents status symbol of social difference and determines the
criterion which allows class identification. The culture of consumption implies
compatibility in music and visual environment. Identification with the progressive
elite imposes mass consumption of wine, which is moved from the courtyards to the
tables. After the enthronement of the national identities in shape of countries, wine
gets its opponents, new drinks which depict the uniqueness in sense of ethnic roots
and customs in the framework of the historical genesis. The appearance of
beverages such as beer, spirit liquors, tea, coffee, is a battle lost in advance against
the popularity of wine. Wine survives all challenges because its mythical, religious
and historical role can’t be compared with anything else. History gives wine its
exclusivity that can’t be exceeded. All the marks that wine through history has
visibly left are susceptible under general spiritual and cultural interpretation. Nor
the Middle Ages or the capitalist society can not come near the ancient wine

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