Category: Wine Wednesday

Wine Wednesday: Feb. 3, 2016

  “Here’s to the corkscrew – a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly.” –W.E.P. French (poet and toaster)

Wine Wednesday: Jan. 20, 2016

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” M.F.K. Fisher (American food writer from the introduction to Vin et Fromage)

Wine Wednesday: December 30, 2015

“Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets.” Roughly Translated: “Who knows how to taste wine never drinks again, but tastes secrets instead.” — Salvador Dali (surrealist painter and owner of a fine moustache)

Wine Wednesday: Dec. 23, 2015

  “Beer is made by men, wine by God!” Martin Luther (seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, craft brewer)

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)

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)