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tournevis
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#day1 of my October Art challenge.

The word is Gouleyant (like a light, sweet and flavourful wine).

As I am very underprepared for this, I have taken heavy inspiration from the internet for this one. Mea culpa.

#octoberartchallenge2024 #octoberartchallenge #octoberdaily #inktober #inktober2024 #obscurewords
#artprompts #artchallenge #drawtober #promptlist #prompts #promptlist2024

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DebinHawaii
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#StorySettings

This one with #Cellar in the title is in my TBR 🍷 At some point I was interested to hear what the Bright Lights, Bug City author thought/knew about wine.🍷

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🍷 🖤📚 5mo
Eggs The blurb says ‘a lot‘ 🤗🤩 5mo
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SarahBookInterrupted
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For all those wine lovers, Lindsay recommends this book on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday. https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-the-oxford-companion-to-w...

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lynneamch
The Wine Bible | Karen MacNeil
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Didn't get #wine posted yesterday, but thought #poetrymatters littens might find this amusing. 😉 #LuckyInLove @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

monkeygirlsmama "Poems are hard. Wine." ????? 9mo
Eggs Good one 🍷😀 9mo
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Leftcoastzen
In Praise of Wine | Alec Waugh
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#LuckyInLove #Wine a recent thrifted find with a couple of my favorite wine stoppers. 🍷

LeahBergen So cool! (And the wine stoppers, too 😍). 9mo
Eggs Awesome 👏🏻 9mo
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Kshakal
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🍷 9mo
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Leftcoastzen
In Praise of Wine | Alec Waugh
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It‘s still the 1940s & 1950s at Goodwill . 😳

LeahBergen Lucky you! 11mo
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DebinHawaii
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#HumbleHarvest

One of my favorite food books about the world of #Wine. 🍷🍷🍷

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🍷 perfect! 12mo
Leftcoastzen I enjoyed this one too! 12mo
Smarkies Enjoyed this one! 12mo
Eggs Methinks I am in need of ‘a wine-filled adventure‘ 😃 12mo
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TheHeartlandBookFairy
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Pickpick

Both entertaining and extremely informational, this book really appealed to the geeky side of the wine lover in me. I felt like a proud student when Jason writes about some obscure fact that I already knew & I was an eager student to learn more interesting and obscure facts about wines. I knew nothing about. I enjoyed his travels, his "must try one suggestions", and his sense of humor. Education is important & this is areally fun education! Cheers

marleed Oh how fun! 13mo
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TheHeartlandBookFairy
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Mehso-so

In Vino Duplicitas.

In Vino Veritas means "in wine there is truth". So, In Vino Duplicitas would loosely translate into "in wine, there is duplicity".

This is an accounting of the rise and fall of the wine forger Rudy Kurniawan. A man who was once called a wine savant, & who ended up serving time for his crimes.

While this is a fascinating accounting, the book itself lacks somewhat in that department. A bit herky(cont in comments)..

TheHeartlandBookFairy herky jerky, told out of order, and sometimes repeating information already covered.

While Rudy goes from fabulous to fake, to "Frankenstein Wines",

from marvelous to monstrous, his actions are those of a crafty and creative criminal.

As for the book, it went from fascinating and factual to far to long. Although its not a long book by length, it was indeed far too long to read the author's wandering and repetitive narrative.

I expected a "fine wine" of a book and feel like I got a bottle that was slightly "corked".

1y
Ruthiella Bummer it didn‘t live up to its promise. 1y
TheHeartlandBookFairy @Ruthiella That's the way it goes, it's all good😁 1y
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