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Brandon Lapides
is winemaker at
Armida Winery
in the
Russian River Valley wine region
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What is ML Fermentation, Malolactic Fermentation, Secondary Fermentation?
Why do wines get better with age?
How do you pair wines with dessert?
Winemaker B Interview - Harvest 2008 – Weeks 1-2
Winemaker B Interview - Harvest 2008 – Weeks 3-4
Winemaker B Interview - Harvest 2008 – Weeks 5-7
Winemaker B Interview - Harvest 2008 - Finale
What’s so special about Syrah?
Harvest 2009, First Interview with Winemaker B
Harvest 2009, Second Interview with Winemaker B
Harvest 2009, Third Interview with Winemaker B
Harvest 2009, Fourth Interview with Winemaker B
Harvest 2009, Final Interview with Winemaker B
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For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
~ Thomas Becon
Grapes are the most noble and challenging of fruits.
~ Malcolm Dunn
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
~ William Shakespeare
After-dinner talk across the walnuts and the wine.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.
~ Stephen Phillips
Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.
~ John Masefield
Veni Vidi Vici Vino! [I came, I saw, I conquered Wine]
~ Lori Lapides
Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
~ Johnny Mercer
Fill high the cup with Samian wine!
~ Lord Byron
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, an' fill it in a silver tassie.
~ Robert Burns
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'.
~ G.K. Chesterton
The wine they drink in Paradise they make in Haute Lorraine.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Wino Forever.
~ Johnny Depp
The smell of wine, oh how much more delicate, cheerful, gratifying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil.
~ Rabelias Gargantua
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
~ Samuel Johnson
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
~ Cardinal Richeleu
Wine and wenches empty men's purses.
~ English Proverb
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after.
~ Lord Byron, Don Juan
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
~ 1 Timothy, 5:23
Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away. wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars.
~ Wycherly
Wine ... cheereth God and man.
~ Judges, 9:13
Wine is bottled poetry.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
~ Shakespeare
Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.
~ Spanish saying
The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.
~ French proverb
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
~ Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.
~ Anon French Proverb
He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Martin Luther, 1777
God made only water, but man made wine.
~ Vixtor Hugo, 1856
Blessed is the fruit of the Vine.
~ Jewish Prayer
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
~ Louis Pasteur
What though youth gave love and roses age still leaves us friends and wine.
~ Thomas Moore
Up to the age of forty eating is beneficial. After forty, drinking.
~ The Talmud, 200BC
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler.
~ Titus Maccius
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
~ The Book of Psalms
How much better is thy love than wine!
~ The Song of Solomon
Like the best wine . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
~ The Song of Solomon
Over the wine-dark sea.
~ Homer
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
~ Alcaeus
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
~ Heraclitus
In vino veritas [In wine is truth].
~ Proverb quoted by Plato
I am falser than vows made in wine.
~ William Shakespeare
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
~ John Gay
Who does not love wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Johann Heinrich Voss
What though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine.
~ Thomas Moore
Con pan y vino se anda el camino [With bread and wine you can walk your road]. ~ Anonymous: Spanish Proverb
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
~ Ovid
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
~ Aristophanes
Hey Man, I'm drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays.
~ Donald Sutherland
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
~ Robert Fripp
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
~ Austin O'Malley
In water one sees one's own face; But in wine, one beholds the heart of another.
~ An Old Frech proverb
Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of care.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can have too much champagne, but you can never have enough.
~ Elmer Rice