Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.
Wine
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
Friendship’s the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure.
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.