Author: LivingLifeForté

Shutterbug. Half of a couple who cooks together. Freelance wine geek. Local food enthusiast. Partner in a garagiste winery. University lecturer.

Wine Wednesday: Dec. 2, 2015

“Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.” Quintus Horatius Flaccus (aka Horace, poet of Rome)

Wine Wednesday: Nov. 25, 2015

“Great wine requires a madman to grow the wine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.” –Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (aka: Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, mustachioed man)   

Wine Wednesday: Nov. 18, 2015

“Quickly bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”  Aristophanes (from “Knights” 424 B.C.,comic playwright)

Wine Wednesday: Nov. 11, 2015

“Was it the wine or the moonlight glow. Or the way we were dancing on that old dirt road.” Luke Bryan, “In Love With the Girl” (country music singer and songwriter, philanthropist)

Paulo Coelho on Love

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” Paulo Coelho (via quotemadness)

Wine Wednesday: Nov. 4, 2015

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (Irish poet, playwright, novelist, no fame for sunglass development)

Harvest Season

corkshrewd: An interesting graphic from Wine Folly about the wine harvest season.