“When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.” MayLittlesHomeMemoriesSawsPagesWineNotesStrikesDesksNotebookInadequateWrong ThingsNoticingStainsSpurs Author:Jonathan Raban
“The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.” MemoriesCreationWineBottlesFlavorAromaTime Capsules Book:French Women For All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes & Pleasure Source: French Women For All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes & Pleasure
“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.” PeopleChildrenLightEyeNationsMemoriesFictionExampleParticularHabitGayWineDancingProfoundObviousAnalysisRootedPoliteGeographyGreat NationsPublic EyeEssayists Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin
“Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.” NeedsEasyImaginationChallengesMemoriesAbilityEnvironmentToolsWineDrinkingGlassesVividGood MemoriesTastingDrinking WineTiltVivid Imagination Author:Marvin Shanken
“Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.” LoveMemoriesLove IsPowerfulDangerAmbitionHatredWineWitMost PowerfulSpursStimulants Author:Amelia B. Edwards
“There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.” ArtAbleMemoriesPleasureWineExtraordinaryWorks Of ArtDividesGreat Wine Author:Robert B. Parker
“To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.” ArtMemoriesEffortWineFruitGlassesFinishedImpressionSoilLastingWorks Of ArtMakersPassagesTransformedPassage Of TimeHecticGood WineFinished WorkLasting Impressions Author:Dave Chambers