If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
— Soren Kierkegaard
Most Powerful Sparkling Wine quotations
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.
Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink.
This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.
And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in;
With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! 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.
The sparkling wines from Ridgeview Estate [.
..] are superb and will forever put to rest the notion that England is not capable of making good wine.