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Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
Muriel Barbery Gourmet Rhapsody
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Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
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Muriel Barbery

Gourmet Rhapsody

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