#wine

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. ↗

— William Bligh

#bought #contract #fifteen #good #inferior

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#careful #closely #continue #even #hope

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#bottle #buy #difficult #distinguish #often

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#beer #beverage #craft #experienced #fastest

I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses. ↗

— Todd English

#cocktails #couple #courses #down #eat

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#bottle #burst #down #extraordinary #first

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#chickens #computer #eggs #extensive #food

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine. ↗

— Roy Evans

#european #football #like #liverpool #wine

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#human #human history #into #mouths #our

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#mistake #mix #mixing #new #old