Wine whine

Wine. It's been around for a while now, but is it OK for the left to drink it? Does it bring with it the label of latte?

Perhaps it depends on your reasons, if you like the taste, and I mean actually like it, then good luck to you. If it's the "in" thing to do, and you want to keep up with the Jones', discuss wineries, or whatever, then you are probably being a knob. When you go to a winery, do you spit or swallow? If you need to drown your lower-class sorrows, and wine is an economically sound choice, bottoms up to ya.

I bring to your attention Exhibit A:

The dirty-great wine cask.

The wine cask as we know it, or as wikipedia calls it, the "Bag in a box" or "Bag of Goon". It also suggests the cask is for "usually cheap" wine. "The wine cask was invented by Tom Angove of Angove's, a winemaker from Renmark, South Australia, and patented by the company on April 20, 1965."
It has been an Australian low-middle class staple for some time. We invented it, possibly so we could have something easy to pour whilst we operated our lawn mowers, Hills Hoists, and atomic absorption spectroscopes. It was ocker, it remains ocker. Never would it be seen amongst the aged whiskeys and elaborate wine cellars of the aristocracy.

Exhibit B. As the Barnes once grunted, in the words of Don Walker:

"Cheap wine and a three-day growth
Come-on, come-on, come-on"

This is another of Australia's possible future national anthems, next to Khe Sahn, and "Aussie Aussie Aussie, oy oy oy". Oh, and that Matilda one. And what is it about? Being a dead-beat pisshead who drinks cheap wine, rocket-fuel, and doesn't pay his Telstra bill.

Here is a bourgeoisie, a rodent, and Jimmy. Which is Barnes closest to?

Exhibit C: The piece-of-resistance:

Oxfam periodically sell wine in their Wine-Into-Water charity campaign.
The SA Greens seem to have an organic wine for party funding as well.

And Jesus, the big old hippie who got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, bled wine. Or grape-juice, if you're driving. Although my knowledge of him is a little sketchy, I think he was also made from bread. Like Powdered-Toast Man I think.

Anyway, I had intended this to be a rational rebuttal, but can't be poo'ed.