quotations about wine
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever!
ARISTOPHANES
The Knights
Wine is a great investment ... if you don't drink it.
VICKI DENIG
"Wine is a great investment ... if you don't drink it", Vine Pair, March 6, 2017
Wine is a passport to the world.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.
MIREILLE GUILIANO
French Women for All Seasons
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
EURIPIDES
The Cyclops
Pancakes and wine is not a slot that exists in my life. Does anyone drink wine with pancakes? If they do, would they even mind what that wine was?
VICTORIA MOORE
"Which wine should I drink with pancakes?", The Telegraph, February 6, 2016
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
PROVERBS 20:1
Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can ... and wine to accept the things I cannot.
ANONYMOUS
Wine is life, death, and love.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
Wine can be difficult. It comes into the room all puffed up and scholarly like your tweedy cousin who graduated from Yale and yammers endlessly about geography, horticulture, technique, and all the rest.
MECCA BOS
"How to Drink Wine Without Looking Dumb or Going Broke", City Pages, February 3, 2016
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
Wine is a grocery, not a luxury.
RICHARD BETTS
attributed, "Wine Ink: All Hail Italy -- drinking from the Boot is about pure pleasure", Sierra Sun, May 20, 2016
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
PAULO COELHO
Brida
When we drink wine we come together, we are in communion with each other, and that is an ancient ritual.
TRUDIE STYLER
"Sting: I make good wine as revenge", The Drinks Business, April 12, 2017
When you're new to wine drinking, the special wine seems esoteric, fetishistic, even faintly ridiculous. Simply put, you don't get it, like someone who doesn't follow sports listening to devoted fans rhapsodizing over a memorable game.
MATT KRAMER
"That Special Wine", Wine Spectator, April 30, 2017
None who has known the charity of wine,
Its pity, the cool logic of its spell
Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell
In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.
DONALD EVANS
"Farewell to Wine"
The pleasure in any wine is subjective: we each bring something to what is there in the glass and interpret the result differently.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.
SANDRA BYRD
Bon Appetit
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
GRAHAM GREENE
Monsignor Quixote