My Wine-Related Webpages
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My Wine-Related Photos.
- The
Barolos and Barbarescos of Bruno Giacosa including an explanation
of his wine labels.
- The
Barolos of G. Conterno.
- The
Barolos of Bartolo Mascarello.
- A presentation explaining the
Labels of Ceretto's Barbarescos and Barolos (in pdf format).
- A presentation explaining the
Labels of Elio Altare (in pdf format).
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- Acknowledgements
- Some of the information on these webpages was obtained from the following sources:
- Antonio Galloni's Piedmont Report,
which is now a part of Antonio Galloni's Italy Report
inside eRobertParker.com. (Subscription required.)
- Italy's Noble Red Wines, Sheldon and Pauline Wasserman, Macmillan, 2nd Edition, 1991.
- A Wine Atlas of the Langhe: The Great Barolo and Barbaresco Vineyards,
Carlo Petrini (Ed.), Slow Food Editore, 2002.
- Barolo Tar and Roses: A Study of the Wines of Alba, Michael Garner and Paul Merritt,
The Wine Appreciation Guild Ltd, 1990.
- The Mystique of Barolo, Maurizio Rosso and Chris Meier, Omega Arte, 2002.
- Also, many thanks are due to Paul Baartman, Mannie Berk, Thomas Rivers Brown,
Jeff Cassetta, Rossano Ferrazzano, Antonio Galloni, John Gilman, Mark Golodetz,
Miran Kegl, Bill Klapp, Helmut Klien, Max Marinucci, "Monfortino", John Morris,
Tom Pedersen, Martin Petersen, Greg dal Piaz,
Rune Rake, Mark Rosenthal, Nicolai Soegaard, Rico Thompson, Stefan Topler, Birger Vejrum,
Michael Weiss, John Wheaver, Chris Wilford, Mike Zolik, and
Martin Zwick for some of the information and pictures on these pages.
Wine Quotes
No nation is druken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness
of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.
- Thomas Jefferson
May God give you of heaven's dew and of earth's richness --
an abundance of grain and new wine.
-Isaac to his son Jacob in Genesis 27:28
Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through
a glass of Chambertin.
- Napoleon.
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than
possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
- Ernest Hemingway.
Beer is made by men, wine by God!
- Martin Luther.
Where there is no wine there is no love.
- Euripedes.
Work is the scourge of the drinking classes.
-Oscar Wilde
A man is never drunk if he can lie on the floor without holding on.
- Joe E. Lewis
Vito Corleone: I like to drink wine more than I used to.
Michael Corleone: It's good for ya, Pop.
Vito Corleone: Anyway I'm drinkin' more.
(from the movie The Godfather)
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind
and say something clever.
- Aristophanes
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man
to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and
brings forth words which were better unspoken.
- Homer, The Odyssey
Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon
Surely, if heaven didn't love wine,
there would be no Wine star in heaven,
and if earth didn't love wine, surely
there would be no Wine Spring on earth.
Heaven and earth have always loved wine,
so how could loving wine shame heaven?
I hear clear wine called enlightenment,
and they say murky wine is like wisdom:
once you drink enlightenment and wisdom,
why go searching for gods and immortals?
Three cups and I've plumbed the great Way,
a jarful and I've merged with occurrence
appearing of itself. Wine's view is lived:
you can't preach doctrine to the sober.
- Li Po (circa 750 A.D)
In the world of wine collecting, the heralded light at the end of the tunnel
is always a freight train, bearing the next great "must-buy" vintage.
- Victor Hong
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