Tag: winelife

Wine Wednesday: April 20, 2016

Wine Wednesday Quote: “Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.” –Moliére (French playwrite and actor)  

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)  

Wine Wednesday: March 9, 2016

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. — Charles Dickens (author, social commentator, a.k.a The Inimitable)

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 Wednesday: Feb. 23, 2016

“Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.” — Lord Byron (a.k.a. George Gordon Byron, English poet, frequenter of Berry Bros. & Rudd)  

Wine Wednesday: February 9, 2016

“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.” –Thomas Moore in National Airs, Spring and Autumn, st. 1 (English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist)

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: 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. 23, 2015

“The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.” — Thomas Love Peacock (author, poet, no relation to Jennifer Love Hewitt)