Art for whatever’s sake

Crazy times here, more posts coming soon, but wanted to quickly share an interesting note and some swell art.

A new article from Food & Wine on the year’s best sommeliers included this factoid: “Seven of these 10 sommeliers prefer to serve Champagne in white-wine glasses.” I do, too, and not just because flutes are a #@^*-ing pain to clean. The nose and flavors are simply fuller and more complex. Flutes might be fine for the cheap, simple stuff (some of which is right tasty), but good stuff from Champagne and elsewhere deserves a “real” glass.

And I wanted to pass along a couple of fine works of art that friends had posted on Facebook (which, unlike many, I still thoroughly enjoy):