Sentence examples for wine honouring from inspiring English sources
Visitors can peruse bottles of wine honouring General Francisco Franco on their labels, cured Spanish hams and olive oil cans bearing the national flag used during Franco's reign, berets and other Fascist paraphernalia.
And it's staking its claim with the opening in June of an ultra-modern museum, La Cité du Vin, "exploring the evolution of wine and honouring all vintages of the planet".
In the courtyard of Linlithgow Palace, fire baskets raged around a fountain which Scottish legend says flowed with wine to honour Bonnie Prince Charlie's visit in 1745.
In the second account, Diodorus recounts that Alexander was struck with pain after downing a large bowl of unmixed wine in honour of Heracles, followed by 11 days of weakness; he did not develop a fever and died after some agony.
(Later, it transpired that the restaurant has been honoured by the Wine Spectator, another oenological bible, for having one of the finest wine lists in the world).
In Maribor, 11 November isn't Remembrance Day but St Martin's Day, a drunken party to mark the end of the Old Vine festival and honour the saint who turned grape juice into wine.
The eucharistic prayer follows, in which the holiness of God is honoured, his servants are acknowledged, the Last Supper is recalled, and the bread and wine are consecrated.
The north-west London venue, founded by cricketer-turned-wine merchant Thomas Lord, is home to the Long Room, the egg-and-bacon colours of Marylebone Cricket Club, the Grace Gates and honours boards on which every cricketer dreams of seeing their name.
