Wine
- Hermitage AOC, wine-growing appellation in northern Rhône on a hill with an old hermit's chapel
- Crozes-Hermitage AOC, wine-growing appellation in northern Rhône in the area surrounding the Hermitage hill
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“A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 10:19.
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—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)