Shmuel Drinks Cooked Wine With Avleit
Avleit, a gentile scholar, is careful not to touch the bottle so that Shmuel can drink, but Shmuel tells him it makes no difference: the wine is cooked.
The Gemara (Avodah Zarah 30a) records that Shmuel once drank wine in the presence of Avleit, a gentile scholar. Avleit was careful not to touch the bottle, knowing that if he did, Shmuel would refuse to drink from it. Shmuel told him, however, that his touching of the bottle was irrelevant, since the wine was cooked— mevushal.