Celebrate

Today is Bastille Day which commemmorates the storming of the Bastille and the overthrow of the French monarchy.
Consider a picnic which includes French wine. Personally, I am going to mark the occasion by reading about wines that I cannot afford on a regular basis — Chateua Y’quem, the world’s finest white wine and the greatest wine I’ve ever tasted; and three of the five “first growths” of Bordeaux:

Update: Samizdata dissents with a different take on Bastille Day.

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