For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the

For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man. – Craig Claiborne, New York Times Cookbook

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A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside; “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, A Handbook of Gastronomy (Physiologie du goût), 1825,

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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman

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Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down? – James A. McDougall

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