quotations about wine
If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.
SANDRA BYRD
Bon Appetit
In wine, there's truth.
PLINY THE ELDER
Natural History
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
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
ARISTOPHANES
The Wasps
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Life of Samuel Johnson
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.
NEIL GAIMAN
Anansi Boys
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 a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
EURIPIDES
The Cyclops
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
A lot of people want to take their wife out to dinner. They want to order a bottle of Champagne and they want other people to see the bottle. Wine is an adjunct. People can see it the same way they can see your clothes.
PAUL LUKACS
"Price is Right? Drinking Premium Wine is Image Therapy--If We Know It's Pricey", California Magazine, May 28, 2016
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
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
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
LOUIS PASTEUR
attributed, Sura's Quotable Quotes, Adages and Sayings
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
Wine contains all four basic tastes. The sweet taste is provided by the alchohol and, where present, its sugars; sour taste comes from the free organic acids; the salt taste from the salts; the bitter taste from the wine's phenolic components, generally called tannins. In tasting wine, these four tastes are not perceived at the same time, they become apparent one after the other.
EMILE PEYNAUD
Knowing and Making Wine
Wine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The Silverado Squatters
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"
A river town. The autumn rain has stopped.
Our wine is gone. So, farewell!
LI BAI
"At a River Town"
I can't make wine simple. But I can make it fun and beautiful, instead of esoteric and intimidating. The minute you realize it's OK to stumble along like the rest of us, asking questions and paying attention to your own reactions, then you'll begin what I hope will be a lifelong love affair with wine.
JENNIFER ROSEN
introduction, The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine
Wine is a social beverage, best appreciated with friends and family. It makes dinner more civilized. It slows us down a little, gives us something special to add to the moment.
HARVEY STEIMAN
Wine Spectator's