Celebrating intoxification at Domaine Canet-Valette
"Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think, And at the same time make it sin to drink? Give thanks to Him who foreordained it thus-- Surely He loves to hear the glasses clink!"
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 91st quatrain, translated by Richard Le Gallienne
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