Rose Tint my World

Red Bicyclette Merlot 2004 (French)

Here is what Jackie had to say (and I most certainly agree)This wine is quite dry, and once it hits the back of your tongue it has a sour aftertaste. It has a “punch,” so to speak, in the way that if you have a taste after a little break, you tend to snap your head back and exclaim “Wow!”  It was different from some of the other wines we’ve tried, but definitely in a good way.

Rating:  8/10


He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

Martin Luther, 1777

Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.

Spanish saying

Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine … cheereth God and man.

Judges, 9:13

Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.

Medieval German saying

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

The Koran

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

1 Timothy, 5:23

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

– Cardinal Richeleu

Bacchus we thank who gave us wine
Which warms the blood within our veins;
That nectar is itself divine.
The man who drinks not, yet attains
By godly grace to human rank
Would be an angel if he drank.

Pierre Motin
French drinking song

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