We're pretty frustrated. The industry is struggling, people are switching to wine and spirits.


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Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
GEORGE HERBERT
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
GEORGE HERBERT
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
GEORGE HERBERT
From wine what sudden friendship springs?
JOHN GAY
A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
IAN FLEMING
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laerti...
LAERTIUS DIOGENES
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."
CHARLES DICKENS
The conscious water saw its God and blushed. - Richard Crashaw,
RICHARD CRASHAW
Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER
Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine...
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER)
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, An...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven, And all the passengers ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring fo...
BIBLE
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth it...
BIBLE
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
BIBLE
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
BIBLE
Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie.
W.A. BELLAMY
Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good; "Let him drink...
ANONYMOUS
John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, ...
ROBERT BURNS
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts...
BIBLE
I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself.
ROBERT ALLOTT (ALLOT)
If you look at what's growing in the beer industry, it's import and craft beers. They're higher pric...
HARRY SCHUHMACHER
There was a general assumption - that is proving somewhat erroneous - that the baby boomers would co...
BENJ STEINMAN
If you are struggling to accomplish something and are frustrated, let that be a sign that You are wo...
DEBRA ROBERTS
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic bevera...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT
There are lot of people there who aren't just [not] in their houses, they are in a different state. ...
MIKE LOWELL
Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.
BENJ STEINMAN
Wine and spirits are outperforming beer, ... It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.
BENJ STEINMAN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.
BOB MARLEY
All optical switching is clearly one of the next great hurdles for the fiber optic industry.
KEVIN KALKHOVEN
I think it really hit close to home because (Johnson) was a mom with three young children, doing som...
HEATHER CULIG
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ard...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
This plan... is going to be incredibly important for the long-term viability of the wine industry an...
KURT GOLLNICK
This winter is a blessing for the wine and grape growing industry.
NORM BEAL
Based on our discussions with multiple consultants and industry contacts, we believe it is likely Jo...
BENNER ULRICH
She's quite comfortable and her spirits are good. This is a pretty rough thing she's going through.
MAGGIE MERMIN
It's pretty clear they're struggling. They're struggling.
DREWRY FENNELL
(Manufacturing) is cyclical, we are either begging for work or workers, and we're in the worker phas...
ANGELIA ERBAUGH
Dennis is passionate about the wine business. His experience from a local, state, national and globa...
DON BRADY
It's very hard to break into the importing alcohol business, period, whether it's wine, beer or spir...
BOB MAXWELL
We do not want to come back (from US – ed.) with big order and signed protocol, but to hide our eye...
ARSENIY YATSENYUK
We do not want to come back (from US – ed.) with big order and signed protocol, but to hide our ey...
ARSENIY YATSENYUK
You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things...
BERNARD SHAW
Our goal is to have parity with the wine industry, not to undermine retail licenses.
GREG ZACCARDI
It's difficult to reconcile these colossal profits with the fact that some of the most vulnerable pe...
DEREK SIMPSON
The American people are frustrated.
PAM BONDI
People were acting like animals not just frustrated.
SHANE AYESH
This partnership reflects a shared philosophy in caring for people, whether they are athletes or, in...
BRIAN PERKINS
It means that people are frustrated and people are not happy.
HOSSAM BADRAWI
Father, we come to You, Father, in the name of the Father, Father we come to You, Father, Father, ju...
TIM HAWKINS
This shows that the state is interested in having a vibrant wine industry.
KEVIN ATTICKS
...take about ten of your chosen tablet or capsules with as large a drink of spirits or wine as you ...
DEREK HUMPHRY
In 1999, it seemed like Randall was struggling, and he kind of seemed frustrated to the point where ...
MATT BIRK
The Olympic Games are about achievement, which is only possible if the athletes are in peak health. ...
BRIAN PERKINS
Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry.
KEVIN ATTICKS
Eternity before I met you is nothing compared with the eternity of being without you after I have di...
PRETTY
Our trade remedy laws are useless unless enforced. The Section 421 safeguard is the last line of def...
PHIL ENGLISH
People are switching to utilities because there is a lot of uncertainty in the market about how deep...
HERBERT LAU
There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyon...
RORY KENNEDY
We were trying some new things, switching people around. We were having too many hitting errors and ...
LYNN LOVE
Without a doubt, it's hard [getting down early]. We were pitching frustrated, we were playing the fi...
ADAM DAVIS
The wine industry has wholeheartedly embraced sustainable farming practices. We are taking that conc...
CHARLES BIELER
For an opener, I thought it went pretty decent. Some of the guys were frustrated with the way they p...
JACK SAMUELIAN
Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty sel...
ADAM MCKAY
The people are suffering and the rulers clink their cups. What color is their wine?...
MARIANA FULGER
A lot of people are struggling to get by.
JEAN ROSS
I go to a lot of wine dinners and people are surprised that our wine sells for $25. They're used to ...
DAVE PHILLIPS
Pretty wife, old wine - many friends
BULGARIAN PROVERB
Every year, regardless of whether the timber industry is struggling or the fishing industry is strug...
DAVE SMITH
If you read the papers, or listen to the radio shows, you know that people are frustrated. And we're...
CHAD KILGER
Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE
People are frustrated. The number of excessive delays can't be justified.
IMAD HAMAD
Energy issues are important to people, and we're are struggling with how to deal with that publicly.
DAVE GARDNER
It is not so much that people are frustrated (with studios)...They see opportunities.
MORGAN FREEMAN
Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak tha...
AARON STATON
People seem to be learning more about wine and they are more discerning.
JENNIFER ORTEGA
Everybody's got to be wearing them, or people are going to be frustrated.
DARRELL SPENCER
This was a game we had to win. They were struggling. We were struggling. We hadn't won on the road y...
CHARLIE VILLANUEVA
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the nex...
MENCIUS
They came out in the first half and were just stroking it. We finally started switching up, which wa...
JEFF FEENSTRA
Everybody in the industry is going to be pretty anxious to know that.
BURT RUTHERFORD
We're all frustrated. Anytime you are losing, it's not fun. We've just got to stick together and con...
JOEL PRZYBILLA
People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington ...
VALERIE JARRETT
Nature shows suck ass, though cobras are pretty sweet. Pretty much any animal that has a gang named ...
PETE WENTZ
Ice wine has become a half-a-million-dollar industry in our county.
GENE SIGEL
The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60% of all alcoholic...
PAT MCGAULEY
There's time, but the clock is ticking. We are fearful of what might happen in the absence of legisl...
DAVE STRICKLIN
What it does within our own industry, it makes people realize how important Texas is to the industry...
BOB HUDGINS
It was a tough weekend because our guys played very hard. But we didn't play as well as we're capabl...
SAM BERG
The roasted lobster is removed from the shell and then added to sautéed rock shrimp ...
BRUCE SNYDER
The roasted lobster is removed from the shell and then added to sautéed rock shrimp ...
BRUCE SNYDER
A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to...
TODD MCFARLANE
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty gl...
AMOR TOWLES
Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurant...
THOMAS KELLER
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
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Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
ED MCMAHON
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei...
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You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t...
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There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo...
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be...
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really...
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from...
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted a...
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Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
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Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their c...
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educatio...
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety stan...
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The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by th...
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventa...
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The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have...
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in ...
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Kar...
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also criti...
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel ec...
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we...
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