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[Randy Caparoso]

I think this thread deserves the benefit of the full quotation from Mr. Jefferson. No one, perhaps, since (except for Mead in his wordier moments) has more eloquently posed the benefits of wine -- its enjoyment, appreciation, and integral part of gastronomy -- over the inevitability of alcohol abuse and even alcoholism in societies where these benefits are denied:

"I consider it a great error to consider a heavy tax on wine as a tax on luxury. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage."

To which, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, I would say: "I'll let you be in my dream if you let me be in yours!" Here's to wine, love, Curmudgeons, and rock n' roll!

[This message has been edited by Randy Caparoso (edited 05-30-2000).]