WINE QUOTES VI

quotations about wine

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

Tags: George Eliot


Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

LOUIS PASTEUR

attributed, Sura's Quotable Quotes, Adages and Sayings


I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

AIMEE BENDER

Willful Creatures


In wine, there's truth.

PLINY THE ELDER

Natural History

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This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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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


Wine is like a living breathing thing. Like artwork. If you don't store it properly ... things happen to it.

SUSAN MCGREGOR

"Exclusive: Inside RoboVault, Storage for the Rich & Famous", CBS Miami, February 5, 2016


It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

NEIL GAIMAN

Anansi Boys

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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


They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

ERNEST DOWSON

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

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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"


One of the things I've found in my preliminary research is that people are more negatively sensitive to the knowledge that a wine is cheap than they are positively sensitive to the knowledge that a wine is expensive. If I serve you a wine and tell you that it costs $4, you'll have a much more negative experience of the wine. It really biases you against the wine even more strongly than it biases you towards the wine when you know it costs $100.

ROBIN GOLDSTEIN

"Price is Right? Drinking Premium Wine is Image Therapy--If We Know It's Pricey", California Magazine, May 28, 2016


The best way to learn about wine is to uncork a few bottles and start sampling.

HARVEY STEIMAN

Wine Spectator's


The god of wine is a fascinating and frightful image of the cosmic interplay of life and death which began after the first catastrophe. Dionysus shows the world the two faces of a truth which makes one insane.... He brings death and resurrection all at once because he himself has tasted the intensity of life as well as death.

PHOTINA RECH

Wine and Bread


Now let you and me buy wine today!
Why say we have not the price?
My horse spotted with five flowers,
My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold,
These I will take out, and call my boy
To barter them for sweet wine.
And with you twain, let me forget
The sorrow of ten thousand ages!

LI BAI

"An Exhortation"


Thus, while I quaff the genial wine,
I live mid transports quite divine.

ANACREON

Ode XXVII, Odes

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Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

JENNIFER ROSEN

introduction, The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine


Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

ARISTOPHANES

The Knights

Tags: Aristophanes


Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.

JACK LALANNE

"30 Inspirational health quotes by fitness guru Jack LaLanne", Examiner, May 18, 2013

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Good wine is expensive.

ERIC TUCKER

The Artful Vegan