I was wondering why I saw drifts of snow in a dream the other day. Funny that when I was shopping at Key Food today I picked up a sack of sugar with a hole in it and unknowingly drew a trail of sugar around the store. I didn't even realize it until I had come full circle (clockwise) and the guy at the deli counter told me to be careful where I stepped, someone was spilling sugar all over the store. The whole time I was doing this I was feeling bad about my son who is too often dominated by his sweet tooth.
The Key Food guy jokingly threatened arrest, I said don't be mad at me, at least I've sweetened things up around here. He was nice about it.
What happened to my capacity for embarrassment, oh dear, my poor children.
Very funny, Brooklyn. Very funny, life.
The wine glasses I dreamt I was breaking by throwing them in with the laundry worked out this way: At Amorina, a pizza place in Prospect Heights, I look up and there's a very old grubby pizza store sign, the kind where you put little letters into slots. In front of it stood three broken wine glasses.
Very funny. WTF? What do broken wine glasses mean? Don't you break a glass, under a napkin, for good luck in marriage? In that case, three broken glasses may be a very good sign. A good sign standing in front of a very old grubby pizza sign. Very funny. Funny, funny Brooklyn.
1 comment:
Burgundy Wine“The wines from Bourgogne boast a longer history than any others.”
Here are some key dates in the long winegrowing history of Bourgogne, listed in chronological order.
312: Eumenes’ Discourses: oldest known documented reference.
1115: Clos de Vougeot Château built by monks from Cîteaux.
August 6, 1395: Duke Philip the Bold (1342-1404) publishes ordinance governing wine quality in Bourgogne.
1416: Edict of King Charles VI setting the boundaries of Bourgogne as a wine producing area (from Sens to Mâcon).
November 11, 1719: Creation of the oldest mutual assistance organisation, the "Société de Saint Vincent" in Volnay.
1720: Champy, Bourgogne's oldest merchant company was founded in Beaune and is still in business today.
1728: The first book devoted to the wines from Bourgogne, written by Father Claude Arnoux, is published in London.
July 18, 1760: Prince Conti (1717-1776) acquires the "Domaine de La Romanée", which now bears his name.
1789: French Revolution. Church-owned vineyards confiscated and auctioned off as national property.
October 17, 1847: King Louis-Philippe grants the village of Gevrey the right to add its name to its most famous cru – Chambertin. Other villages were quick to follow suit.
1851: First auction of wines grown on the Hospices de Beaune estate.
1861: First classification of wines (of the Côte d'Or) by Beaune's Agricultural Committee.
June 15, 1875: Phylloxera first detected in Bourgogne (at Mancey, Saône-et-Loire).
1900: Creation of the Beaune Oenological Station. April 30, 1923: Founding of La Chablisienne, Bourgogne's first cooperative winery.
April 29, 1930: A ruling handed down by the Dijon civil courts legally defines to the boundaries of wine-growing Bourgogne (administrative regions of Yonne, Côte-d’Or, and Saône-et-Loire, plus the Villefranche-sur-Saône area in the Rhône).
December 8, 1936: Morey-Saint-Denis becomes the first AOC in Bourgogne.
October 14, 1943: Creation of Premier Cru appellation category.
October 17, 1975: Crémant de Bourgogne attains AOC status.
Jully 17, 2006: Creation of Bourgogne's 100th appellation: “Bourgogne Tonnerre”.
You can more information on the burgundy wine in: http://www.burgundywinevarieties.com/
Post a Comment