Opening a bottle of wine, clinking glasses with one's peers while exclaiming: cheers! Behind the banality of these gestures lie three associated dreams: a dream of some paradise, a dream of health, a dream of brotherhood. Associated dreams? Yes, because they express a quest, a thirst for perfection, inherent to the human condition. With multiple and varied rituals, the history of wine takes on different forms depending on the context in which it is placed: spiritual and religious through communion with the divine - medical, from Hippocrates to the French Paradox, social and political through the sharing of experiences towards a better future. During the tasting, a silence speaks volumes: the five senses are stirred. If "life is but a dream," wine turns the dream into reality.