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“I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches.
I blot out cemetaries. I feed the people with stinging nettles. I resurrect madness. I thrust my naked sword between the ribs of the world. I murder the world!”
― Harry Crosby

“I'm gonna kick your miserable ass, God!”
― Kaori Yuki, Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 20

“Down there resides the sum of all necromantic transgression,” she said, in the singsong way of a child repeating a poem. “The unperceivable howl of ten thousand million unfed ghosts who will hear each echoed footstep as defilement. They would not even be satisfied if they tore you apart. The space beyond that door is profoundly haunted in ways I cannot say, and by means you won’t understand; and you may die by violence, or you may simply lose your soul.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“there is no such thing as a great vintage, only great bottles.”
― Stephen Brook, Complete Bordeaux: 4th edition: The Wines, The Chateaux, The People

“Anthony Barton told me in 2004: The pricing of the top growths has got completely out of hand. I asked one of my neighbours, who is fairly open about these things, what he planned to do in a recent vintage. “Oh,” he said, “I’ll probably increase my prices by 10 or 15 per cent.” Needless to say, he came out about 40 per cent higher. When I taunted him gently about this a few weeks later, he shrugged his shoulders and murmured: “Quand le train passe, je monte dessus.” (“When the train passes by, I climb aboard.”) I’m known for keeping my prices fairly stable, and let me tell you, I’m still making good money. The problem with ridiculous price increases is that it turns Bordeaux into a speculative market. Of course it has always been that way, but it’s becoming more exaggerated. And that makes it impossible for smaller properties to get by. They can’t possibly match the prices of the top growths, so there is a vast pool of well-made wine, especially from crus bourgeois, for which there is little market. And while the top properties keep ratcheting up their prices, they ignore the fact that there is a good deal of unsold stock in Bordeaux.”
― Stephen Brook, Complete Bordeaux: 4th edition: The Wines, The Chateaux, The People

“We are right to grumble that many Bordeaux wines are grossly overpriced, but we are under no obligation to buy them, and if we are fortunate enough to be able to afford them, then it is unlikely we will be disappointed by their quality. A great Médoc from 1990, a great Pomerol from 1998, a great Sauternes from 2011, a great white Pessac-Léognan from 2017 – these are wines that satisfy the senses and stimulate the intellect. What more can we ask of a fine wine?”
― Stephen Brook, Complete Bordeaux: 4th edition: The Wines, The Chateaux, The People

“We realized that we were intentionally making the blend less good,” says Jean-Hervé Chiquet, “and that made no sense.” Realizing that blending to suit a predetermined style meant producing inferior wine, the brothers began to question the value of consistency. For”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“there is no part of us that is not of the gods!”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“Dionysos I call loud-sounding and divine, inspiring God, a two-fold shape is thine; thy various names and attributes I sing, O’ firstborn, thrice begotten, Bacchaen King. Rural, ineffable, two-formed, obscure, two-horned, ivy-crowned, and Euion pure. Bull faced and martial, bearer of the vine, endued with counsel prudent and divine: Eubouleus, whom the leaves of vines adorn … hear my voice O’ lord ! Come blessed Dionysos, begot from thunder, Bacchus famed. Bassaros God, of universal might, whom swords and blood and sacred rage delight … come with much rejoicing mind.”[”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“Reflecting his dual nature, the Dionysian rites contained within them the message of balance and opposition - dismemberment and rejuvenation, descent and return, imprisonment and liberation, love and loss; mysteries celebrated by his followers which within the moment of ritual trance, unmasked themselves to reveal their names to be life and death.[69] And like Dionysos, his followers learnt to traverse the worlds.”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“early Dionysians invited ghosts and spirits to their springtime celebrations.”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“as a god of liberation and revelry, Dionysos’ stage was certainly the place for questioning the ‘status quo’, and experimenting with social boundaries.”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“What I’ve found is that in more delicate vintages, the wine benefits a lot from long lees aging and a late disgorgement,” he says. “But in ripe years, the earlier disgorgements can often show better.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“Bérêche produces about eighty-five thousand bottles a year, yet the house still disgorges its bottles entirely by hand.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“the team at Bérêche prefers to physically handle each bottle to ensure that none of them contain cork taint or any other deviations before leaving the cellars.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region