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Wine vinegars do still contain some level of alcohol. The vinegar taste is actually due to acetic acid, but the chemical transformation is never fully complete just sitting around a kitchen. Vinegar would be much too gross to drink in the quantity it would take to intoxicate anyone.
Wine is acidic. The main contributor to its acidity is acetic acid. Ethanol (aka ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol) breaks down (oxidizes) into acetaldehyde and then further into acetic acid (aka vinegar). The acetic acid is always present in small concentrations and over time oxidation occurs and the concentration increases.