Is wine consumption in Britain democratizing? Communicating class and taste through the Saturday Times wine column (1982–2017)

Welch, Nikki; Tominc, Ana

doi:10.1080/10350330.2019.1681069

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“… Ritchie (2007) shows that wine had become “the drink of choice” at domestic and commercial meals by 2005. Meanwhile, connoisseurs and columnists give advice about which drinks and foods “match” (e.g., Welch and Tominc, 2019 ). Jani et al (2021) argue that alcohol accompanying meals has less harmful effects, especially with respect to wine, suggesting that meals may be a context for drinking in moderation.…”

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Situated drinking: The association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain

Warde

Sasso

Holmes

et al. 2023

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

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Aims: This paper examines the co-occurrence of drinking alcohol and eating in Great Britain. Applying a practice-theoretical framework, it attends primarily to the nature and characteristics of events – to social situations. It asks whether drinking events involving food are significantly different from those without, whether differences are the same at home as on commercial public premises, and whether differences are the same for men and women. The focus is especially on episodes of drinking with meals at home, an infrequently explored context for a substantial proportion of contemporary alcohol consumption. Data: Employing a secondary analysis of commercial data about the British population in 2016, we examine reports of 47,645 drinking events, on commercial premises and at other locations, to explore how eating food and consumption of alcoholic beverages affect one another. Three types of event are compared – drinking with meals, with snacks, and without any food. Variables describing situations include group size and composition, temporal and spatial parameters, beverages, purposes, and simultaneous activities. Basic sociodemographic characteristics of respondents are also examined, with a special focus on the effects of gender. Results: Behaviours differ between settings. The presence of food at a drinking episode is associated with different patterns of participation, orientations, and quantities and types of beverage consumed. Gender, age, and class differences are apparent. Conclusions: Patterns of alcohol consumption are significantly affected by the accompaniment of food. This is a much-neglected topic that would benefit from further comparative and time series studies to determine the consequences for behaviour and intervention.

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Situated drinking: The association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain

Warde

Sasso

Holmes

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Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

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Consuming place: Women, wine and imagination

Aujard

2024

Australian J of Anthropology

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This paper examines wine drinking among English and Australian women to discover and analyse the connection between their consumption of wine and their experiences, thoughts and imaginings. Comparing the experiences of women from the English town of Halifax with women from the southern suburbs of Adelaide and McLaren Vale (South Australia), I show how imbibing wine enables both groups of women to consume place, space and time, thus extending a liminal experience. Importantly, both groups of women engage with notions of national or regional identity. However, whereas English women typically experience wine drinking as a temporal engagement of social imagination involving a form of armchair alco‐tourism, Australian women mostly engage their social memory, and experience wine drinking as embedded within imagined communities of belonging. As such, this study demonstrates that wine drinking is not just gendered, but a complex, culturally situated practice and experience.

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Is wine consumption in Britain democratizing? Communicating class and taste through the Saturday Times wine column (1982–2017)

Cited by 2 publications

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Situated drinking: The association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain

Situated drinking: The association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain

Consuming place: Women, wine and imagination

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