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"Time for Wine Tasting 101. “So here’s how this works. When tasting a wine, as opposed to casual drinking, there are four basic steps you need to remember: sight, smell, taste, then spit or swallow.” Nick paused at that last part and cocked his head. “And your personal preference on the latter would be…?” “Only lightweights spit.” His right eye twitched."
"The Champagne they have stored is getting more valuable every year."
"I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch."
"Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation."
"These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows."
"The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds."
"Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise."
"Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker"
"Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC."
"We are what we pretend to be."
"What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking."
