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Commemorating National Wine Day in the United States with some fine images reflecting American wine. Quotations courtesy of wikiquote:Wine.

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  A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  Appropriate for Washington State's Yakima River Valley, which has over 300 sunny days a year, and includes the Yakima Valley AVA.
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  A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. – Anacharsis as quoted by Diogenes Laertius
  At least three grapes in New Mexico.
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  In vino veritas – Pliny the Elder
  Also: in Grand Junction, Colorado, vino (Colorado National Monument in the background).
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  Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach
  Who please, the more because they preach in vain,—
  Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
  Sermons and soda-water the day after. – Lord Byron, Don Juan
  Some mirth and laughter may have been had in the barrel room at the aptly named Merryvale Vineyards in California. Sermons? Not so much, maybe.
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  Give me a bowl of wine; In this I bury all unkindness. – William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar
  You could bury a lot of unkindness at this New Orleans shop.
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  Call things by their right names: Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. – Robert Hall (minister)
  Concord grapes grown in Upstate New York are used for both distilled damnation and non-alcoholic drinks like grape juice.

Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. – W. C. Fields Fields may have had better luck with the Alternative wine closure "Vino-Seal", created by Aluminum Corporation of America, similar to that shown here (left).

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  Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. – Proverbs 31
  Napa Valley AVA, in California, site of several of the 2017 Northern California wildfires. Wishing sincere solace for those who endured that misery.