Wine Extras
There is so much to enjoy and learn about wine.
This section of the site is a small offering to share with you an appreciation of our region and of wine in general.Cheers.
Australian Wine - An Overview
Over 1.5 million bottles of Australian wine are sold overseas every day. That's a staggering figure but it has not been an overnight achievement. The wine industry here has taken almost 200 years to bloom into its current state after its first taste of international acclaim in the early 1800s.
About South Australia and Our Wine Industry
Nardone Baker Wines is as proud to be a South Australian producer, and when you read on about our state you will soon understand why.
BYO Wine - Some Tips
If you are thinking of taking your own wine to a restaurant, here are a few tips to make the experience a pleasant one.
Wine Tasting Tips
To really learn to appreciate wine, it is important to learn restraint and poise. By far, wine is most rewarding when time is taken to observe this wonderful beverage well ahead of 'slurping it down'. The first step is to pour it carefully - filling only a third and no more than a half of your stemmed wine glass.
A Glossary of Wine Tasting Terms
Acidity, Balance, Oaky? Some useful terminology that is often used for describing a wine.
Wine Quotes and Toasts
"No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God."
Plato
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Wine Quotes & Toasts
God made only water, but man made wine.
Victor Hugo
Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry."
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it well used."
Shakespeare
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages."
Louis Pasteur
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues."
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Wine cheereth God and man."
Judges 9:13
Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.
Spanish saying
Now is the time for drinking, now is the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. "
Horace
Wine is the pearl in the oyster of the grape.
Charles A. Nardone, Mirabella Ranch, Texas USA
A waltz and a glass of wine invite an encore."
Johann Strauss
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one's present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason."
Latin saying
No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God."
Plato
Wine is sunlight, held together by water."
Galileo Galilei
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
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
Diogenes
Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
St. Paul, 1 Timothy 5:23
Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
Euripides
Quickly bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may whet my mind and say something clever."
Euripedes
Wine is bottled poetry."
Robert Louis Stevenson
A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Contact Details
Admin/Production
PO Box 386, McLaren Vale, South Australia, 5171, Australia.
Sales/Distribution:
10 Gray Street, Kilkenny, South Australia, 5009, Australia
Phone +61 8 8445 8100
Fax +61 8 8445 8200
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