Wine vessels kept them fresh and free from a vinegar smell. In medieval Europe, the Roman Catholic Church supported wine because the clergy required it for the Mass. Monks in France made wine for years, aging it in caves. An old English recipe that survived in various forms until the 19th century calls for refining white wine from bastard—bad or tainted "bastardo" wine. The English word "wine" comes from the Proto-Germanic "*winam", an early borrowing from the Latin "vinum", "wine" or "(grape) vine", itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European stem *"win-o-" (cf. , "gini"; Ancient Greek: "oinos"; Aeolic Greek: "woinos"; Hittite: "wiyana";
White wine Casanova celebrated wine parties, drunk at fine tables. "Every guest had at his right a bottle that could be white wine or mead. I know I drank ... of the excellent white burgundy" - Casanova "From this fresh wine the sparkling foam For our French it is a brilliant image" - Voltaire White wine is also used in humour, in a drama with Marcel Pagnol or in a gossip radio show for Pierre Desproges. "Serve me a bottle of white wine if it is fresh. - If it is fresh? Touch me there! Looks like it comes from the vineyards