Marie Claude

When I was growing up, a family friend who had emigrated from Turin, taught me a local proverb “Better to drink an entire well of wine than to waste a single drop.”
For my Russian friends, your saying would work if you substituted “bottle” for “glass”.

Speaking culturally, if a barbarian can do so, one of the aspects about the EU which most bothers me is the homogenization of drinking standards and customs across the continent, as appellations are being brought into line across national boundaries, and charming local products are being purged by Eurocrats. Today your wines tomorrow your famed six hundred cheeses. You will be left with only two cheeses – hard white, and soft, yellow runny – both of bastard lineage.