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“Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It’s true some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place” Abigail Van Buren
Wedlock
“Wedlock is like wine - not properly judged until after the second glass.” Ernest Jarrold
Stephen Wright
“I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn’t have to wait for it to age.” Stephen Wright
Horace
“Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.” Horace
(I don’t know what it means either, but it sounds very erudite.) A very “lst of October” quote.
John Stuart Blackie
“Wine is the milk of the gods, milk is the drink of babies, tea is the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.” John Stuart Blackie
Wine Tasting at Truxton's American Bistro in L.A.
Every small business starts small. Our first wine tasting at Truxton's American Bistro in Los Angeles. The response to our flavours was incredible. Now let's hope customers will ask for more. (Our bottles featured in the center.)
Frances Tabeek, Wine Enthusiast
“A good wine is like a gentle kiss, its effect throughout the meal is scintillatingly sensual in an elegantly understated way.” Frances Tabeek, Wine Enthusias
Randgle Cotgrave, Wine lover
“Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.” Randgle Cotgrave
Chinese wine drinkers
The Chinese drank their way to a record 155 million 9-llitre cases of red wine in 2013, thereby surpassing even the French, whose consumption decreased by 18% to 150 million cases. The increasing popularity of red wine in China is largely due to the fact that red is considered to be their lucky color. This symbolic importance, combined with the health improving virtues of the beverage, encourages the Chinese to grab a bottle from the supermarket shelf more and more often.