December 2011
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November 2011
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Mayans Sought Wine Not Chocolate: Cacao Fruits... →
Who knew?!
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“Give me books, fruit
French wine and fine weather
and a little music out of...”
– John Keats
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“In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and...”
– Ernest Hemingway, “A Movable Feast” (via je-menfous)
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The Physics of Wine Swirling - ScienceNOW →
Or, “How overly enthusiastic wine swirlers manage to splash their drinks, possibly staining their sweaters.”
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An Easy Explanation of Wine Types | Primer →
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It's time for sparkling wines! →
For those in Greece, don’t miss out!
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A Bordeaux convenience store sold 170 tons of... →
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“The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing...”
– Homer, The Odyssey Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)
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Another view at Beaujolais Nouveau..
parisdoparisdont:
The French take their wine very seriously and while the rest of the world falls victim to the beaujocraze at the strike of midnight on the third Thursday of every November (sort of like a French Thanksgiving), Parisians remain beaujoblasé. It’s too light, too fruity, too blah for the Parisian palate—it is just too nouveau to really be enjoyed. Parisians only like French...
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How wine is made. →
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