winebibber

Etymology

From wine + bibber.

winebibber means A habitual (or heavy) drinker of alcohol, especially wine, an excessive wine-drinker; a drunkard. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

Why “winebibber” is a great word

WINEBIBBER — [Noun] A habitual or excessive drinker of wine; a drunkard. From wine + bibber ("a drinker, a tippler"), a loan-translation of German Weinsäufer, first recorded in English 1525–35. Unlike "drunkard," a blunt term for one intoxicated by any liquor, or "connoisseur," which implies refined appreciation, the winebibber is defined by a singular, unceremonious thirst for the grape alone. It is the purple stain on a steady lip, the sour reek of the tavern, the dregs of a third unmeasured flagon—a portrait of consumption without comprehension, where the sun-ripened sacrament of the vine becomes fuel for a quiet, vinous decay.

noun

A habitual (or heavy) drinker of alcohol, especially wine, an excessive wine-drinker; a drunkard.