Wine Wine was an alcohol ic beverage made from pressed fruit , usually some form of grape . While commonly found on Earth , many alien civilisations made their own wines . The Wine Lord s were famed throughout the Galaxy for their wines . However , society collapsed when they were convicted of mislabelling wine . ( PROSE : " The Crystal Bucephalus " ) Wine was often consumed with a meal , though it could be drunk without food as well . Wine was sometimes drunk for medicinal purposes . After looting a manor ' s cellar , Richard Mace claimed to Adric that wine tasted like " nectar " . ( TV : " The Visitation " ) Clara Oswald liked red wine ( TV : " Kill the Moon " ) and Prosecco . ( PROSE : " Deep Time " ) History . Humans consumed wine as early as 1440 BC . At this time , wine was very viscous . ( PROSE : " The Last Pharaoh " ) A Bacchanite bartender tried to use wine at a Viennese tavern to create illusions of personal sorrow to capture his patrons . ( PROSE : " The Sorrows of Vienna " ) Types of wine . Earth wines . Fortified wines , like sherry and vermouth were wines with an added distilled beverage . Champagne , sometimes known as " sparkling wine " was a wine with carbon dioxide in it , making it bubbly . It was often used for a celebration such as Christmas or to celebrate the end of a particular event . Médoc was a red wine favoured by John Lucarotti . ( PROSE : " The Meeting " ) Irongron at one point had only sour red wines in his castle . The Third Doctor drank several goblets . ( TV : " The Time Warrior " ) The Third Doctor also consumed a few glasses of domestic elderberry wine and requested a bottle to " take home " . ( TV : " The Green Death " ) Chris Cwej got drunk on melon wine and had his right ear pierced . ( PROSE : " Damaged Goods " ) On one occasion , Hargeaves served a bottle of Sangiovese with dinner . ( AUDIO : " Aquitaine " ) President of Earth Dora in 2540 drank wine with General John Williams . ( TV : " Frontier in Space " ) Alien wines . Bernice Summerfield once drank Craxiatanian Chardonay . ( PROSE : " Theatre of War " ) Rassilon ' s Red was Gallifrey ' s finest vintage . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) The Doctor had wines from Ribos and champagnes from Manussa in his wine cellar . ( PROSE : " Question Mark Pyjamas " ) The Seventh Doctor had Coralee wine in the TARDIS . ( PROSE : " Prime Time " ) Wine was consumed on Traken during the wedding of Tremas and Kassia . ( TV : " The Keeper of Traken " ) E - space . After a thousand years from accidental Earth colonisation , wine was produced and drunk on the vampire planet in E - Space that was inhabited by vampire s . ( TV : " State of Decay " ) Whilst in the Gateway , the Fourth Doctor drank wine with Biroc and other Tharil s . ( TV : " Warriors ' Gate " ) Slipping drugs in wine . In 64 Rome , Vicki Pallister attempted to kill Nero by swapping the poisoned wine goblet intended for Barbara Wright with Nero ' s goblet . The First Doctor stopped Nero from drinking before it was too late . Nero tested the Doctor ' s claims by giving the drink to Tigilinus , who died after drinking from the poisoned goblet . ( TV : " Conspiracy " ) Mehendri Solon gave the Fourth Doctor some drugged wine which knocked him out for some time . ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " ) Blon Fel - Fotch Passameer - Day Slitheen attempted to kill the Ninth Doctor by poisoning his glass of wine . The Doctor was aware of this and swapped his glass with Blon ' s . ( TV : " Boom Town " ) River Song put micro - explosives in a Dorium Maldovar ' s glass of wine , which he drank . She did this to convince Maldovar to accept a Callisto Pulse as trade for the vortex manipulator she required . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) Jack Harkness added a level 6 retcon to the champagne at Gwen and Rhys Williams ' wedding , in order to keep them from remembering the day ' s strange events . ( TV : " Something Borrowed " ) Drunkenness from wine . According to Susan Foreman , she couldn ' t get drunk unless she wanted to . ( PROSE : " The Sorcerer ' s Apprentice " ) On Peladon , Bernice Summerfield consumed a lot of wine during a meal with King Tarrol , in order to trick a pair of accompanying Ice Warrior s into thinking she was drunk . ( PROSE : " Legacy " ) The Eighth Doctor tricked Vengorr into believing that he had contracted " the World Cup Fever " and told him that drinking wine was the only cure . Vengorr became so drunk he could not function and had to return to his homeworld , ostensibly to cure the fever . While Vengorr and Thon were drunkenly fighting , the Doctor was able to reprogram the transdimensional portal and send them to one of the moons of Mordelius Prime . ( AUDIO : " Living Legend " ) Wine storage . Wine and other alcoholic beverages were often kept in special cellar s created for the sole purpose of storing wine , called wine cellars . The Third Doctor noted that Sir Reginald Styles ' cellar at Auderly House was " impeccable " . The Seventh Doctor kept a fully stocked cellar at his house ; Smithwood Manor where he had wines from every conceivable century on Earth as well as alien wines . ( TV : " The Visitation " , " Day of the Daleks " ; PROSE : " " ) The Doctor . Several incarnations of the Doctor enjoyed drinking wine , with the third incarnation of the Doctor in particular enjoying a glass or two of red wine while guarding Auderly House , saying to Jo ; " That ' s a most good - humoured wine . A touch sardonic , perhaps , but not cynical . A most civilised wine , one after my own heart . " ( TV : " Day of the Daleks " ) The Fourth Doctor described 1979 as more of a " table wine " of a year . ( TV : " City of Death " ) By his ninth incarnation , the Doctor could identify the year and place of origin of wine by its taste . ( PROSE : " The Clockwise Man " ) The second incarnation drank wine to test the Dalek - programmed Arthur Terrall . He had noticed the man never ate nor drank but was full of electrical energy . Ironically , the household staff had been told he and Jamie had had too much of a " party " to explain their condition when kidnapped by Edward Waterfield . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) He rarely showed interest in food and drink outside the TARDIS unless it was a means by which to suss out information . He was once forcibly augmented into a part - Androgum creation . Before his body could throw off the alien DNA he helped his " donor " Androgum Shockeye drink twelve bottles of wine . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) The Ninth Doctor joined Harriet Jones and Rose Tyler in toasting the defeat of a Slitheen , but he immediately spat it out . ( TV : " World War Three " ) The Eleventh Doctor did not enjoy wine , spitting it back into the glass after taking a sip when given some at the house of Craig Owens . ( TV : " The Lodger " ) At Lake Silencio , the Eleventh Doctor brought a bottle that he said was thrown at him by Napoleon to drink at a picnic with Amy Pond , Rory Williams and River Song , but again spat it out , stating before he did that he must have tried it sometime in his life . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " )