Keep in mind that it was (and is) customary to bring a gift of some kind when going on a friendly visit for a meal or for the evening. When invited to dine in a friend's home, a bottle of (real) wine to accompany the meal was and is the most usual kind of gift to bring. The inscription is inviting you to forgo this usual type of gift and bring a better one: the wine of friendship.
If you don't like references to "wine", you could go with this:
--Brent
Scottish-English Dictionary:
http://www.primenet.com/~llsmith/scottish.htm:
ben (bef. 12c), within, intimate, well cared for
ben (ca. 1799), the inner room or parlor of a 2-room cottage
Appendix A: Classification of Scotch Whiskies, http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jhb/whisky/lapointe/text.html:
A.5 . Group E
Scotches: Balblair, Bladnoch, Caol Ila, Edradour, Glenburgie, Inchmurrin, Inverleven, Kinclaith, Littlemill, Pulteney
Average characteristics: pale wyne, gold; fruity, peaty; light; sweet, spicy; fruity
Distillery and Scotch average rating: 3.00; 74.8
The best of its class: Bladnoch (Lowlands), 8 years, 85
A.8. Group H
Scotches: Bruichladdich, Deanston, Fettercairn, Glenfiddich, Glen Mhor, Glen Spey, Glentauchers, Ladyburn, Tobermory
Average characteristics: white wyne, pale; sweet; smooth, light; sweet, dry, fruity, smoky; dry, light
Distillery and Scotch average rating: 2.44; 69.2
The best of its class: Bruichladdich (Islay), 10 years, 76
A.9. Croup I
Scotches: Ardberg, Bowmore, Dufftown, Glenfarclas, Glenlochy, Glenury Royal, Jura, Lagavulin, Longrow (Springbank distillery)
Average characteristics: gold, full gold, bronze; dry, peaty; medium, light, finn; dry, smoky, sweet; salty
Distillery and scotch average rating: 3.67; 79.9
The best of its class: Longrow (Campbeltown), 14 years, 90
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/printing.html:
The TREASURE of poor men
Here beginneth a good boke of medecines called the Treasure of pore men.
London: imprynted by Robert Redman, 1539. [Af. e. 62]
This is one of the earliest English medical books. It contains numerous homely prescriptions, mainly consisting of herbs, for instance: For stoppynge of the Splenne. Take the Elder roote and sethe it in whyte wyne unto the thyrd pte & drynke therof for it cureth merueylously. Only three other copies of this edition are known to exist, one (which is imperfect) in Britain and two in the United States. It has a printer’s ornament on the title page, woodcut initials, and Pynson’s device on the verso of the last leaf.
http://lonestar.texas.net/~lg_photo/florilegium/files/measures-msg.text:
'thirdendeal. ...
1. The third part of anything; a third.
. . .
2. A third of a tun; = tertian B. 2.
1423 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 256/1 Thredendels and hoggeshedes so aftur lesse
mesure.
14.. MS. Cantab. Ff. 5. 48, lf. 55 b (Hartshorne Anc. Metr. T. (1829) 54),
Hit holdis a gode thrydendele Ful of wyne euery mele.
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/erltou.htm:
310 The Erle sayde,
"Y holde the trewe,
And that schall the
nevyr rewe,
As farre forthe as
y may."
Yn hys herte he waxe
gladde: grew
"Fylle the wyne,"
wyghtly he badde, eagerly
315 "Thys goyth to
my pay!" goes to my liking
There he restyd that
nyght;
On the morne he can
hym dyght prepare himself
Yn armytes array;
hermit's
When they ronge to
the masse,
320 To the chapell
conne they passe, (see note)
To see that lady gay.
http://www.aracnet.com/~atheism/hist/inglife.htm:
Our life is joyous,
jocund, free --
Not one a slave
Who bends in fear
the trembling knee,
And seeks to save
A coward soul from
future pain;
Not one will cringe
or crawl for gain.
The jeweled cup of
love we drain,
And friendship's
wine
Now swiftly flows
in every vein
With warmth divine.
And so we love and
hope and dream
That in death's sky
there is a gleam.