“The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth.” —Jim Harrison, American poet

“The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth.”

—Jim Harrison, American poet

The name chardonnay is derived from:

A. A Latin word meaning “place of thistles”

B. A medieval French term for “white chalky soil”

C. A combination of two Greek words meaning “golden sphere”

D. A Celtic term meaning “that which is delicate”

Chardonnay is derived from the medieval Latin word cardonnacum, meaning “place of thistles.” Thistle is chardon in French. There is a small village in the Mâconnais region of southern Burgundy called Chardonnay.

“Age gives a wine a sense of beauty and satisfaction that it could never have had before when it was young. In our minds, we intuit that beauty and satisfaction as a feeling of completeness. Because so much of life is incomplete, an old wine is remarkable and moving.”

—Warren Winiarski,
founder of Napa Valley’s Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars

“The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth.” —Jim Harrison, American poet

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