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Wine Wednesday: March 16, 2016

Wine Wednesday Quote: “I shall drink no wine before its time.  OK, it’s time!” –Groucho Marx (comedian, film star, cigar smoker)  

National Mulled Wine Day: March 3, 2016

Our temps are in the 70s this week.  I’ll take my mulled wine over ice with a bit of orange! Wine Wednesday spilling to Mulled Wine Thursday Quote: “Mulled wine, heavy on the cinnamon and light on the cloves. Off with you, me lad, and be lively!” –Henry Travers (as the guardian angel Clarence, It’s a…

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Wine Quotes

  Wine and Age “Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.” — Anonymous “A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.” — Stephen Phillips, Ulysses, III. ii “What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.” — Thomas Moore, National Airs, Spring and Autumn “Alonso of…

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Wine Wednesday: Oct. 21, 2015

“Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!” — Leo Buscaglia (author, speaker, enthusiastic teacher of love)

Wine Wednesday: Sept. 30, 2015

“Enjoying your wine collection isn’t always about acquiring more wine, but rather knowing more about what you’ve acquired.” –Warren Porter (master of cellarage)

Wine Wednesday: Sept. 9, 2015

“Good  days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire.” –Freya Stark (explorer, travel writer, nomad)

Notes on Terroir

corkshrewd: An informative, albeit technical explanation of terroir, a key concept in understanding and appreciating good wine. I dig this stuff. -forté

Wine Wednesday: July 22, 2015

“Wine is bottled poetry.” –Robert Louis Stevenson (author, travel writer, California wine aficionado) [and the only poetry I like –forté]