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…

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…

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: Dec. 23, 2015

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

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: July 22, 2015

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