Vin as wine or just juice

Getz takes the approach in investigating 'being moderate' and its application to drinking I had never heard until I was out of High Schol, that the 'vin' could actually be just like Welch's Grape juice. To me as a young man a novel idea and the way it was presented was in that intransitive way, not that it had to be nonfermented, but that it could be nonfermented, When you think about the turning of water into wine and the statements made as to its quality you are left to surmise and assume what quality iin wine was at that time. Was it higher in alcoholic content, dryer or sweeter in flavor, clearer in its presence, what about its bouquet? Perhaps some secular historian from the time has lent us his opinion on what most thought a good wine was, or what the elite thought a good wine was, or what the frequent imbiber or the drunk or the abstainer. We really cannot say, though we, as a rule usually form an opinion about it as we do on most things. But if we look at Jesus staements about the effect of new wine on old flasks then we might wonder if new wine is the good wine and old wine the less good and thereby make the assumption that of course new good wine was less fermented and at least more desirable to the untrained palate.

Where Getz spent most of his time was in the use of the phrase moderate in all things. I remember, more by the homily than by the direct memory(it has been so long), that too many pbj's(who could stop me?) will clog the system! Time and laxative to the young intestine'a rescue.