Moonshine is actually a poison disguised as liqour that includes special chemicals to fool the drinker in believing Moonshine is actually good.
I'm not a saying it's good and it's potency can allow it to serve other purposes, since alcohol is a good slightly polar solvent, antiseptic, fuel, antifreeze, and preservative. There are no special chemicals or dangerous poisons in moonshine. It's just very pure ethanol.
All alcohols can act as poisons, some only requiring small doses, some requiring huge doses. True moonshine produces highly purified ethanol from corn mash which while very strong and not delicious, is relatively safe for human consumption at controlled doses.
Wine is much weaker in potency, produced from grapes and is primarily only used for drinking and cooking.
It should be noted that the drunk effect due to consumption of moonshine or wine (or beer and other distilled spirits) is from the ethanol.
I love how you both described in detail, and said nothing everyone didn't already know.