The English at that time grew the Vine for wine-making purposes; indeed, very good wine can now be, and is, made from English grapes. Every monastery had its vineyard, and to this day London has six Vine Streets and one Vineyard Walk. The wine-hall seems to have been a different apartment to either the mead or ale-halls, and of a superior order.
[10]“The company all arose;
one man another
Hrothgar Beowulf,
and bade him hail,
gave him command of the wine-hall.”
...[11]
“He strode under the clouds,
until he the wine-house,