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Originally Posted by Eway Thanks for the detailed explanation. 
And, so...about the third sentence, is it basically saying that (the wines) had made people uncultivated / wild / primitive? |
Happy to help out. The third sentence is more difficult for me to interpret because I am not a wine expert but I will give it a shot.
" (the wines) had, in its inimitable way, collectively reduced our zeitgeist to a tribal low common denominator." (--and, why "tribal"? )
Wine experts are normally considered to be cultured people. At wine tasting events they don't swallow the wine, they spit it out. Wine is evaluated for flavor not consumed to get drunk. In this particular case it appears that collectively they drank a lot of wine and became drunk. They were no longer acting like cultivated wine experts. So, in short, I think your interpretation is correct.