Wine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Christianity === [[File:The Marriage at Cana - Decani.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Jesus]] making wine from water in ''[[Marriage at Cana|The Marriage at Cana]]'', a 14th-century [[fresco]] from the [[Visoki Deฤani monastery]]]]{{Main|Christian views on alcohol|Alcohol in the Bible}}In [[Christianity]], wine is used in a sacred rite called the [[Eucharist]], which originates in the [[Gospel]] account of the [[Last Supper]] ([[Gospel of Luke]] 22:19) describing [[Jesus]] sharing bread and wine with his disciples and commanding them to "do this in remembrance of me." Beliefs about the nature of the Eucharist vary among [[Christian denomination|denominations]] (see [[Eucharistic theologies contrasted]]). While some Christians consider the use of wine from the grape as essential for the validity of the [[sacrament]], many Protestants also allow (or require) [[pasteurization|pasteurized]] grape juice as a substitute. Wine was used in Eucharistic rites by all Protestant groups until an alternative arose in the late 19th century. [[Methodism|Methodist]] [[dentist]] and [[prohibition]]ist [[Thomas Bramwell Welch]] applied new pasteurization techniques to stop the natural fermentation process of [[grape juice]]. Some Christians who were part of the growing [[temperance movement]] pressed for a switch from wine to grape juice, and the substitution spread quickly over much of the United States, as well as to other countries to a lesser degree.<ref>{{cite news |title=Almost Like Wine |date=3 September 1956 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824374,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118114338/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824374,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 November 2007 |work=[[Time Magazine]] |access-date=26 June 2008}}</ref> There remains an ongoing debate between some American [[Protestant]] denominations as to whether wine can and should be used for the Eucharist or allowed as an ordinary drink, with Catholics and some mainline Protestants allowing wine drinking in moderation, and some conservative Protestant groups opposing consumption of alcohol altogether.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} The earliest viticulture tradition in the Southwestern United States starts with [[sacramental wine]], beginning in the 1600s, with Christian friars and monks producing [[New Mexico wine]].<ref>{{cite book | last1=Birchell | first1=D. B. | last2=Steel | first2=G. | title=New Mexico Wine: An Enchanting History | publisher=American Palate | series=American Palate Series | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-60949-643-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5f0kvgAACAAJ | language=it | access-date=15 November 2019 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page