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Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

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By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Good wine needs no bush.

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Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

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Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.

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Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

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A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

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After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

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Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

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I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

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