A enchanting tour of wine to savor over the weekend.
‘Wine is bottled poetry’ * declared Robert Louis Stevenson when visiting the vineyards of Napa Valley, California in the1880s and winemakers around the globe now seem intent on bringing that poetry and creativity to the very names and labels of their products.
A few years ago there was a proliferation of wonderful and weird names to both white and red wines and although a more sedate marketing has taken over the business, there are still some lovely evocative label names as well as the more unusual and peculiar.
A remarkable animal is celebrated in both the name and label of one South African wine. ‘Porcupine Ridge’ winepays homage to the nightly visitors to the vineyard when it welcomes the crested porcupines. Their formidable spines and quills form an impenetrable defence barrier as they arrive in the dark, snuffling for food around the vineyard, forest and fynbos (small belt of natural…
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Bernadette, warmest thanks for sharing my post and hope your readers enjoy it! 😀
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I love that opening quote. LOL.
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Me too and I’m so glad I came across it! 😀 There’s actually a whole poetry book related to wine!
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You’re kidding. That would make a fun gift to give to my wine loving friends. Do you recall the title?
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Bernadette, I found the link on my history – the book (Bottled Poetry. Verses from the Vine) is on the left side down the front page of the website for Vintage Wine Poems. Here is the link: http://vintagewinepoems.com.
I hope your friends really like it – I would love to know what they think…and you’ve given me an idea for present for some of my friends too! 😀😃
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This is a great post!
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Many thanks, Lynz! 😀
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Annika, wonderful poetry and fantastic pictures. Perfect quote as well. Good luck with this. Thanks for hosting, Bernadette!!
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Many thanks, Micki – this was a lot of fun to write and i enjoyed placing the wine bottles around the garden for the photos! The quotes were a real help in giving me the start to the post when I was floundering how to begin. Likewise, many thanks to Bernadette, a gem in sharing on her blog. 😀🌻
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I so enjoyed Annika’s post – photographic well-named wines! 😏
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