WordNet
n. used in a communion service [syn: altar wine]
Wikipedia
Sacramental wine, Communion wine or altar wine is wine obtained from grapes and intended for use in celebration of the Eucharist (referred to also as the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion). The same wine, if intended for use in ceremonies of non-Christian religions or for ordinary use, would not normally be described by these terms.
Usage examples of "sacramental wine".
He has been reborn only twice before, but each time there had been a priest there to greet him, to give him the ceremonial sip of sacramental wine from the cup and then the customary glass of orange juice.
After scratching his head for a minute, he decided it was definitely time to stock up on sacramental wine from the wholesaler on the other side of Farberville.
After a time he sat down on a handy stump, blotted his face and neck, and took the flask of sacramental wine from his pocket.
Brother Verber poured the last drops of sacramental wine into a tumbler and jammed the empty bottle into a grocery bag under the sink with the others.
Do you think the archbishop would mind if you raided his sacramental wine for a wee dram?
No matter how hard I've tried to convince him otherwise, he thinks drinking is fine as long as it's sacramental wine.
He learned the locations of blind pigs all over the city, the funeral parlors that filled bodies not with embalming fluid but with gin, the churches that offered something more than sacramental wine, and the barbershops whose Barbicide jars contained “.
Or is it just a matter of chalices and sacramental wine and the choir singing?