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Wine not?
Commemorating National Wine Day in the United States with some fine images reflecting American wine. Quotations courtesy of wikiquote:Wine.
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy! – Benjamin Franklin
Behold the rain which descends on Sonoma County, California.
Behold the rain which descends on Sonoma County, California.
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A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Appropriate for Washington State's Yakima River Valley, which has over 300 sunny days a year, and includes the Yakima Valley AVA. -
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. – Anacharsis as quoted by Diogenes Laertius
At least three grapes in New Mexico. -
In vino veritas – Pliny the Elder
Also: in Grand Junction, Colorado, vino (Colorado National Monument in the background). -
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach
Who please, the more because they preach in vain,—
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. – Lord Byron, Don Juan
Some mirth and laughter may have been had in the barrel room at the aptly named Merryvale Vineyards in California. Sermons? Not so much, maybe. -
Give me a bowl of wine; In this I bury all unkindness. – William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar
You could bury a lot of unkindness at this New Orleans shop. -
Call things by their right names: Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. – Robert Hall (minister)
Concord grapes grown in Upstate New York are used for both distilled damnation and non-alcoholic drinks like grape juice.
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Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. – W. C. Fields | |
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Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. – Proverbs 31
Napa Valley AVA, in California, site of several of the 2017 Northern California wildfires. Wishing sincere solace for those who endured that misery.
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