Wine Bible
The Bible doesn't advocate wine, but neither does the Bible forbid wine. After all, the Bible indicates that Jesus made large jars of wine for an already well-watered wedding party at Cana. The Bible also records the Apostle Paul telling Timothy to drink wine: "No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities." (1 Timothy 5:22)
The Bible warns against getting drunk or drinking wine around people who are struggling with alcohol, but otherwise you can drink wine, although you can also not drink wine. Drinking expensive wine, however, is a different matter. Consider the following:
For $4, AsiaHarvest can print and smuggle 2 Bibles into a nation that prohibits Bibles, and for every Bible smuggled, an average of 5 people become new Christians, who then also need Bibles.
If the $24000, 75cl bottle of Romanee-Conti contained 24 sips, that's $1000 per sip. For $1000, 500 Bibles could have been smuggled and 2500 new Christians born.
Are your wines more in the $200 range? For $200, 100 Bibles could have been smuggled and over 500 souls - still a significant number - won for Christ.
Wine is an acquired taste. The better wines you drink, the better wines you have to drink. At first, $20 wines impress the taste buds just fine. But if you start to drink $100 wines, the $20 wines no longer impresses. It doesn't mean your taste buds are any happier, but just that you need to spend more money to keep them happy.
So why not just stay with the $20 bottle? Instead of Chateau Cheval Blanc, buy Chateau Neuf du Pape, a perfectly fine red. instead of Romanee-Conti, drink Sancerre or Chablis, perfectly fine dry whites.