Any advice is helpful

[Brom]

"wine, which is not drink, it is food."

This is nonsense. It is akin to saying 'apples, which are not fruits, but food'

Certainly wine is drink. It is just as certainly an alcoholic drink. It is an alcoholic drink which can be and is by many considered part of a meal and enjoyed for its complex and wonderful being, but you are mistaken in believing that wine is food.

Food nourishes the body. We take physical sustenance from food. None of us can live without food.

We take essentially no nutrition from wine. We can say "I couldn't live without wine" but we know that to be untrue. We may not enjoy life as much, but most of the population of the world lives without wine.

You can eat nothing but bread for a week and be fine. Likewise meat, fruits, vegetables and so on. If you "eat" nothing but wine for merely one day, you will likely get ill. try it for a week and state again that it is food.

Just as certainly the alcohol in wine is an integral part of what wine is. Wine without alcohol is an abomination, as I am sure you agree.

When you have a chilled glass of Jurancon on a fine spring afternoon, is that a snack? When you toast the bride and groom with champagne is that because you are hungry?

You denigrate wine by calling it food.

What I do agree with is that one cannot "learn everything there is to know about wine" without drinking it.