Comments on: Takin’ it easy http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wine/2008/04/24/takin-it-easy/ Complement your plate and your palate with Bill Ward Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:39:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: kate http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wine/2008/04/24/takin-it-easy/#comment-55 kate Thu, 01 May 2008 14:17:59 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wine/2008/04/24/takin-it-easy/#comment-55 "It is is better for pearls to pass through the lips of swine than good wine to pass through the lips of the indifferent" Mark Luedtke This quote came to mind after a party I attended in which I watched a whole group of people knock back glasses of a superb Viognier like they were in a college beer-drinking contest. And to hear them talk about how good it was appalled me; they had no more tasted that fantastic lush wine then one tastes from an aroma of grilling steak wafting down the street on a summer evening. “It is is better for pearls to pass through the lips of swine than good wine to pass through the lips of the indifferent”

Mark Luedtke

This quote came to mind after a party I attended in which I watched a whole group of people knock back glasses of a superb Viognier like they were in a college beer-drinking contest. And to hear them talk about how good it was appalled me; they had no more tasted that fantastic lush wine then one tastes from an aroma of grilling steak wafting down the street on a summer evening.

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