Tips for BYO Wine
If you are thinking of taking your own wine to a restaurant, here are a few tips to make the experience a pleasant one.
Firstly, it pays to check with the restaurant to see if they are happy for you to "BYO".
Secondly, if you are going to take your own wine, it is good manners to take wine the restaurant doesn't already stock and/or take a wine of special significance, such as a Nardone Baker wine (hint, hint)!
Remember that you will be charged a corkage fee. You might want to ask what that is ahead of time to determine whether it still makes bringing your own wine worthwhile.
Wine writer, Natalie McLean suggests it is a good practice to buy a glass of wine from the restaurant, such as a sparkling wine, as a "goodwill gesture". (You can subscribe to Natalie's free newsletter at www.nataliemaclean.com ).
Naturally, if your favourite restaurant does not stock Nardone Baker wine, suggest they do and set yourself up for a culinary paradise!
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Wine Quotes & Toasts
A waltz and a glass of wine invite an encore."
Johann Strauss
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
Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages."
Louis Pasteur
Wine is bottled poetry."
Robert Louis Stevenson
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
Diogenes
Wine is sunlight, held together by water."
Galileo Galilei
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 the pearl in the oyster of the grape.
Charles A. Nardone, Mirabella Ranch, Texas USA
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry."
Ecclesiastes 8:15
God made only water, but man made wine.
Victor Hugo
Now is the time for drinking, now is the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. "
Horace
No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God."
Plato
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
Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
St. Paul, 1 Timothy 5:23
A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it well used."
Shakespeare
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues."
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.
Spanish saying
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