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Commemorating National Wine Day in the United States with some fine images reflecting American wine. Quotations courtesy of wikiquote:Wine.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy! – Benjamin Franklin
Behold the rain which descends on Sonoma County, California.

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Appropriate for Washington State's Yakima River Valley, which has over 300 sunny days a year, and includes the Yakima Valley AVA.
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. – Anacharsis as quoted by Diogenes Laertius
At least three grapes in New Mexico.
In vino veritas – Pliny the Elder
Also: in Grand Junction, Colorado, vino (Colorado National Monument in the background).
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach
Who please, the more because they preach in vain,—
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. – Lord Byron, Don Juan
Some mirth and laughter may have been had in the barrel room at the aptly named Merryvale Vineyards in California. Sermons? Not so much, maybe.
Give me a bowl of wine; In this I bury all unkindness. – William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar
You could bury a lot of unkindness at this New Orleans shop.
Call things by their right names: Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. – Robert Hall (minister)
Concord grapes grown in Upstate New York are used for both distilled damnation and non-alcoholic drinks like grape juice.


Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. – W. C. Fields Fields may have had better luck with the Alternative wine closure "Vino-Seal", created by Aluminum Corporation of America, similar to that shown here (left).

Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. – Proverbs 31
Napa Valley AVA, in California, site of several of the 2017 Northern California wildfires. Wishing sincere solace for those who endured that misery.

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Very classy article. Barbara ✐ ✉ 11:31, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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