page_title: Bacchanalian fraternity
hierarchical_section_title: Bacchanalian fraternity
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Réception de la Commanderie des Grands Vins d'Amboise par la Confrérie Saint-Etienne d'Alsace
context_page_description: A Bacchanalian fraternity is a fraternal society of professional or amateur aficionados of wine and perhaps other alcoholic beverages, typically promoting the wines of represented regions, such as wines from France and Germany. The term derives from Bacchus, the Roman equivalent of Dionysus, god of wine and intoxication.
  Some of the societies date to the early modern era. Other modern ones have various affiliations, such as in the form of student societies.
context_section_description: A Bacchanalian fraternity is a fraternal society of professional or amateur aficionados of wine and perhaps other alcoholic beverages, typically promoting the wines of represented regions, such as wines from France and Germany.  The term derives from Bacchus, the Roman equivalent of Dionysus, god of wine and intoxication.
  Some of the societies date to the early modern era.  Other modern ones have various affiliations, such as in the form of student societies.
caption: Reception of Commanderie des Grands Vins d'Amboise of Confrérie Saint-Étienne d'Alsace in Kientzheim, Alsace (2005).
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