“Conserve water. Drink more wine.”
I saw this among the quotes on the walls of BevMo, and a friend recently bought a placard with these words of wisdom to hang in her kitchen.
Seeing as how there are so many environmental issues to worry about, I’m happy to do my part.
“Robert Parker, the world’s greatest and most influential wine critic. One bad word from him can make a winemaker reach for the razor blades.” –Ralph Steadman, Untrodden Grapes
Ladies and gentlemen, put the blades down. Critics aren’t everything, and I think, slowly, more people are getting that.
“Wine makes old wives wenches”
–John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina
So drink up, men. Or maybe not….
“The best kind of wine is that which is pleasant to him that drinks it.” –Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Now, I don’t know Pliny, but he’s right. This is in continuation of the palate discussion: Drink what makes you happy. The rest will fall in place.
“May you never want for wine, nor a friend to help drink it.” French proverb
Who’s in?
“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” W.C. Fields
Liquid diet anyone?
“A bottle of wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.” Robert Louis Stevenson
(How else can you justify spending a large portion of your income on something which will soon be gone?)
…One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints…
Italian proverb
(even better because I’m part Italian and was raised Catholic)
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