In David Copperfield, wine both entices and endangers and its dubious charms weren't lost on Dickens himself

For Henry James, the Medoc was as much a moral and emotional wine-growing locale as it a physical place

Shakespeare's Falstaff — suspicious of the "sober-blooded" — is veritably rhapsodic about the empowering virtues of Andalusian sherry

The mercurial brat pack writer is at his heady best — and most revealing — in his collected works on wine