Vinum Regum: Classic themes in fine drinking stories. Issue 5 (3rd September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Poppi, Fabio Indìo Massimo; Beccaria, Franca
• Is Part Of: Leisure studies. Volume 41:Issue 5(2022)
• Page Start: 671
• Page End: 687
• Publication Date: 2022-09-03
• Subjects: Alcohol -- drinking story -- drinking genre -- fine drinking -- narrative analysis -- narrative; Leisure -- Periodicals; Recreation -- Periodicals; 306.4805
• DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2021.2022182
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0261-4367

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Drinking stories are a narrative genre that revolves around drinking and its functions. While drinking stories commonly refer to large amounts of alcohol, young people, transgressive meanings, and interactional goals, the article focuses on the practice of fine drinking, a type of drinking that is characterised by quality, service, and atmosphere. The present article scrutinises the content of adults' drinking stories when there is no intoxication involved by analysing interviews with Italian participants who come from different sectors of alcohol production, distribution, and consumption. In this contribution, fine drinking stories are regarded as a sub-genre of drinking stories because of some specificities that seem to characterise them. The analysis results in six main themes that show a cultural imperative in playing a central part of Italian enogastronomic tradition and in protecting people from heavy episodic drinking.