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Wine Studies

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Wine Studies at Civitas

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
University website: www.civitas.edu.pl/en/

Definitions and quotes

Wine
Wine (from Latin vinum) is an alcoholic beverage made from grapes, generally Vitis vinifera, fermented without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.
Wine
But that which most doth take my muse and me,
Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine,
Which is the mermaid's now, but shall be mine.
Ben Jonson, Epigram CI.
Wine
In proverbium cessit, sapientiam vino adumbrari.
It has passed into a proverb, that wisdom is overshadowed by wine.
Wine
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Homer, The Odyssey, Book XIV, line 520. Pope's translation.

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