What are the qualities, powers and uses of dandelion wine?

Dandelion wine becomes in the novel a symbol of summer, happiness, and memories that are of great importance: “Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.” It is not an accident that wine is chosen as a symbol of happiness, because both happiness and wine can make a person drunk and even cloud one’s thoughts. However, dandelion wine has nothing to do with negative effect of spirits - it is only the positive side, only one of optimism. And the very process of collecting the flowers and making the wine is a kind of ritual that is important for the boys because it is associated with summer.