"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history." -Clifton Paul Fadiman
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Did you know that there is a right and wrong way to hold a wine glass. Wine glasses should always be held by the stem and not the bowl because the heat of the hand will raise the temperature of the wine?

Did you know that the worst place to store wine is usually in the kitchen because it is typically too warm to store wine safely? And that refrigerators are not satisfactory for storing wine either, even at their warmest setting, they’re too cold?

Did you know that the shallow champagne glass originated with Marie Antoinette. It was first formed from wax molds made of her breasts?

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish." -Charles Baudelaire

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." -Pope John XXIII

"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." -Francis Bacon