Commemorating National Wine Day in theUnited States with some fine images reflectingAmerican wine. Quotations courtesy ofwikiquote:Wine.

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  A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. –Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  Appropriate forWashington State'sYakima River Valley, which has over 300 sunny days a year, and includes theYakima Valley AVA.
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  A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. –Anacharsis as quoted byDiogenes Laertius
  At least three grapes inNew Mexico.
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  In vino veritas –Pliny the Elder
  Also: inGrand Junction, Colorado, vino (Colorado National Monument in the background).
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  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.
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  Give me a bowl of wine; In this I bury all unkindness. – William Shakespeare,Julius Cæsar
  You could bury a lot of unkindness at thisNew Orleans shop.
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  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 inUpstate New York are used for both distilled damnation and non-alcoholic drinks likegrape 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 theAlternative wine closure "Vino-Seal", created by Aluminum Corporation of America, similar to that shown here (left).

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  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 the2017 Northern California wildfires. Wishing sincere solace for those who endured that misery.

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