July 23, 2021

bottle of French white wine

PAUL JABOULET AINÉ “Mule Blanche” Crozes-Hermitage

If I ever imagined that Marsanne—the workhorse white grape of the northern Rhône —lacked elegance,… Continue reading

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Franciacorta is an Italian grape.

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Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief
To simpleton sages and reasoning fools;
This moment’s a flower too fair and brief
To be wither’d and stain’d by the dust of the schools.
Your glass may be purple, and mine may be blue,
But, while they are fill’d from the same bright bowl,
The fool who would quarrel for difference of hue,
Deserves not the comfort they shed o’er the soul.

—Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet, from Irish Melodies, Vol. II