Famous Authors Thoughts On Wine

“If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”
― D.H. Lawrence

 “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” ― Charles Baudelaire

 “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida

 “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” ― John Keats

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

 “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine” ― E.E. Cummings

"She spoke my name like a french whore calling for laudanum, a raspy anxiousness- and in that moment I reached out for the wine, and in her haste she reached for, and tasted myself"
Igor Trumble-  Thus I sat


“Beer is made by men, wine by God.” ― Martin Luther

“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.” ― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.” ― Homer, The Odyssey

“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Hong Kong is officially the world's leading wine market

For Shame.

China,the red viper of pseudo communism, has taken hold of it's most precious prey: the world's wine market.

This is the most terrifying news I've received since learning that the Republicans allowed a second god damned Mormon to run for president. I've said it before and I'll say it now: the only thing worse than the inane puritan gobbledygook of Mormonism is the repulsive hypocrisy of a wine collecting communist!

And yet, The city has become so attractive as a wine auction center that (the clearly inept and delusional) chef Ferran Adria has chosen to sell the 8,807 bottle cellar from the now-defunct El Bulli restaurant here and in New York. Unheard of less than a year ago, where New York would have hosted the entire collection.

In January of 2013 the cellar of the coward Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Cats,” was auctioned off in 748 lots. It included two cases of Château Cheval Blanc 1982, each case valued at HK$95,000 to HK$160,000, and two magnums of Romanée Conti 1990, Domaine de la Romanée Conti, estimated at HK$160,000 to HK$240,000 each.
*you can view his interview with Sotheby's who hosted the auction- on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmqMJkrGywc

 And this shameful china mongering prompted the ususally level headed Food and Wine to posit: "Will Hong Kong Drink Up All Our Wine?" It was an irrepresible thought piece that raised more than a few eyebrows. http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/will-hong-kong-drink-up-all-our-wine

The fears are real, and the world's elite seem to "drinking the cool aid" more than imbibing on thier own god dammned wines. Call me old fashioned- but I'm from a time when people collected wine to actually drink it- not sell it to the single greatest threat to our beloved country.
Forget Snowden, I say we go after Webber, and with everything we have. The bastard.

 More to come on my revenge on RED CHINA... Chin- Chin.

Masters of Wine Celebrates 60 years

For sixty years the Institute of Masters of Wine has been promoting professional excellence and knowledge of the art, science and business of wine. It began with an exam held for the first time in 1953 for the trade, known as the Master of Wine examination. Two years later the Institute of Masters of Wine was formed by the people who had passed the inaugural exam. The Institute’s membership now spans 24 countries while its study, examination and events programmes are conducted annually on a worldwide basis. It is with a warm heart I say congratulations to my dear friends and teachers, I am honored to share in your tradition. Chin- chin!

Japan's Hakone Kowakien Yunessun Wine Spa Resort

“A unique spa containing real red wine. Bathing in wine is a rejuvenation treatment for the body, and it has been said that the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra loved to bath in wine. There are regular performances of pouring real wine into the spa a few times a day.” http://www.yunessun.com/english/yunessun.html