Photo: From https://www.champagnevilmart.fr/ “[1996] isn’t a vintage of pleasure; it’s a vintage of desire.” Laurent Champs of Vilmart & Cie., Champagne, France.  Quoted in Terry Theise, Reading between the Wines (which I just finished reading).

Picture:  Amphora found near Crete.  naava.org “On my first trip criss-crossing the Aegean, I was nursing an ouzo in a small glass and staring into the water, when I suddenly understood the meaning of Homer’s ‘wine-dark sea.’  Homer wasn’t saying that the sea was the color of wine.  He was saying that the sea had […]