"Where there is no wine there is no love."
--- Euripedes
"Never bring up your better bottles if you are entertaining a man who cannot talk. Keep your treasures for a night when those few who are nearest to your heart can gather round your table, free from care, with latchkeys in their pocket and no last train to catch."
--- Maurice Healy, Claret
May our love be like good wine, grow stronger as it grows older.
--- Old English toast
"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need. A homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink. For thirst is a dangerous thing."
--- Jerome K. Jerome
Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away.
Wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars.
--- Wycherly
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.
--- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all.
So tell me why should it be true,
That I get a kick out of you.
--- Cole Porter
In water one sees one's own face. But in wine, one beholds the heart of another.
--- Old French proverb
DAILY TIDBIT:
Excerpts from Gayot's Top Ten Wines for Valentine's Day:
1. Champagne Jean Milan
Why: "Faintly sweet, feminine yet full-bodied."
2. Chateau Haut Marbuzet
Why: "The palate is voluptuous with an underlying note that's masculine, feral and sexy."
3. Deviation Dessert Wine from Quady Winery
Why: "Made with orange Muscat infused with damlana, a Latin American aphrodisiac herb."
4. Tandem Chardonnay
Why: "It has an almost salty quality that just makes the mouth water for more."
5. Taylor Fladgate 30-Year Old Tawny Port
Why: "It balances sweet with tongue-teasing freshness... Its finish is long and seductive, with toffee, chocolate, and roasted nuts."
--- Euripedes
"Never bring up your better bottles if you are entertaining a man who cannot talk. Keep your treasures for a night when those few who are nearest to your heart can gather round your table, free from care, with latchkeys in their pocket and no last train to catch."
--- Maurice Healy, Claret
May our love be like good wine, grow stronger as it grows older.
--- Old English toast
"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need. A homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink. For thirst is a dangerous thing."
--- Jerome K. Jerome
Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away.
Wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars.
--- Wycherly
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.
--- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all.
So tell me why should it be true,
That I get a kick out of you.
--- Cole Porter
In water one sees one's own face. But in wine, one beholds the heart of another.
--- Old French proverb
DAILY TIDBIT:
Excerpts from Gayot's Top Ten Wines for Valentine's Day:
1. Champagne Jean Milan
Why: "Faintly sweet, feminine yet full-bodied."
2. Chateau Haut Marbuzet
Why: "The palate is voluptuous with an underlying note that's masculine, feral and sexy."
3. Deviation Dessert Wine from Quady Winery
Why: "Made with orange Muscat infused with damlana, a Latin American aphrodisiac herb."
4. Tandem Chardonnay
Why: "It has an almost salty quality that just makes the mouth water for more."
5. Taylor Fladgate 30-Year Old Tawny Port
Why: "It balances sweet with tongue-teasing freshness... Its finish is long and seductive, with toffee, chocolate, and roasted nuts."
