(A novel serial for Liberty’s Torch? Perhaps.)
If you’re “of a certainly age,” yous mightiness retrieve Francis Ford Coppola’s early on triumph The Godfather. This towering painting as well as its every bit impressive sequel both won the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as deservedly so. Marlon Brando’s surgical operation as Vito Corleone was amid the best of his career. Al Pacino’s portrayal of Vito’s boy Michael was his launching pad to stardom. Many who had thrilled to Mario Puzo’s novel of the Corleone menage unit of measurement as well as its conflicts had a difficult fourth dimension sincerely proverb “I liked the mass better.”
The Godfather offers many striking moments. But for me, the snippet I cherish most as well as volition retrieve longest is this one:
I, too, similar to imbibe vino to a greater extent than than I used to...and hither at the Fortress of Crankitude, there’s a particular 2nd reserved for the day’s kickoff drinking glass of wine: 3:00 PM Eastern time. We telephone telephone it Snort Time.
Snort Time takes precedence over anything else that mightiness hold out going on. I could hold out inwards the middle of a Nobel Prize In Literature-winning sentence. The C.S.O. could hold out balancing the Vatican’s ain books. All that volition hold out ready aside for that kickoff drinking glass of “the fruit of the vine as well as operate of human hands.” (The dogs as well as cats don’t larn a vote, though they produce larn Greenies as well as catnip.)
In recent years, owing to our uncovering of a expose of absolutely neat New York State wineries, Snort Time is oft a fourth dimension of uncovering as good as of bibulous pleasure. We’ve made a request of getting onto those wineries’ PR mailing lists, then that we’ll hold out notified as presently as some novel vintage or novel varietal is introduced to the consuming public. We seldom neglect to “buy in”...and nosotros seldom neglect to relish what follows.
Today arrived a shipment from 1 such winery: Chateau Lafayette Reneau, inwards Hector NY: a illustration of its award-winning 2017 Dry Riesling. Upon the arrival of Snort Time today, I opened the case, uncorked a bottle, as well as poured spectacles for the C.S.O as well as myself.
I’m non a technical skillful inwards the assessment or description of a wine, then I’m non going to larn into a long discourse close the aroma, the foretaste, the residue of tannins as well as sugars, or anything else the pseudosophisticates who manner themselves “oenophiles” would dribble endlessly on about. (Around hither nosotros telephone telephone them “wine snobs.” We won’t get got them inwards our home.) Instead I’ll only tell yous that this is a delightful beverage: slightly tart as well as slightly sweet, amongst a unique as well as refreshing character. Were I anything but the superbly disciplined, fifty-fifty Spartan epicure all Liberty’s Torch readers know me to be, I’d regain it tardily to imbibe far as good much of it. (Yes, I’m all the same struggling to lose the concluding fifteen pounds. Thanks so much for asking.)
Chateau Lafayette Reneau takes orders over the telephone or Web. It ships to all of New York as well as several other states. Give its 2017 Dry Riesling a try. You won’t regret it.
