Just after 7am on August 6, Wilson was stopped by police on High St, Carterton, and during breath alcohol testing procedures became "highly agitated" and unco-operative.
He produced the kitchen fork and threatened to stab the policeman, prosecutor Sergeant Garry Wilson said.
A passenger in the car disarmed him and tried to calm him but Wilson grabbed the officer through the car window by his jacket collar attempting to pull him into the car, Mr Wilson said.
The officer had to use pepper spray to control Wilson but he continued struggling, climbing out the window, grabbing the officer by the hand and biting him twice, he said.
When police finally settled Wilson down, he blew an alcohol reading of 1186mcg of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit for an adult driver is 400mcg but will soon be dropped to 250mcg.
In explanation, Wilson told police he had been drinking all night after the unveiling of his father's headstone and that he only threatened the officer because he had pepper-sprayed him.
Lawyer Virginia Pearson told the court her client had a job and asked the court to step back from a term of imprisonment and consider a community-based sentence, structured in a way to help rehabilitate him.
Judge Morris said that with such a high reading, Wilson was lucky not to have crashed.
The only thing between him and crashing was a "thin white line and good luck", she said.
Using a starting point of seven months' imprisonment, Judge Morris gave Wilson credit for his early guilty plea, sentencing him to community detention with a curfew between 7.30pm and 2am, Monday to Thursday, and a weekend curfew from Friday at 7.30pm to Monday at 2am, along with supervision with a special condition to attend alcohol and drug counselling.
"That is home detention in everything but name," she said.
