WINE QUOTES V

quotations about wine

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


As a commodity, the value of wine is one that draws a lot of skepticism. The higher the price tag a wine has the further divorced its cost seems to be from its production. It's a reductive perspective, but certainly the most expensive wines command prices far removed from the cost of production; instead scarcity, demand, terroir, story, the market economy and -- hopefully -- quality are what drive prices higher.

SAM BEHREND

"Halo Effect Gives Wine Prices Wings", Wine Searcher, May 30, 2016


Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can ... and wine to accept the things I cannot.

ANONYMOUS

Tags: change


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

ANACREON

Ode XXVII, Odes

Tags: Anacreon


In wine, there's truth.

PLINY THE ELDER

Natural History

Tags: Pliny the Elder


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


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


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"


'Tis the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool -- it drives the
man to dancing ... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.

HOMER

The Odyssey

Tags: Homer


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

HARVEY STEIMAN

Wine Spectator's


No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.

GRAHAM GREENE

Monsignor Quixote

Tags: Graham Greene


Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

LOUIS PASTEUR

attributed, Sura's Quotable Quotes, Adages and Sayings


With a special bottle of wine, there is ample opportunity for angst about when to open it. On the one hand, an expert pontificates wine will be best in five years. Do you really have that much patience? What is the harm if you dare open it "early." Likely answer is no harm at all. Wine evolves, and a wine expert may believe it will continue to evolve, eventually reaching a plateau where it will not get better. That is the expert's recommended drink date. That does not mean the wine is not drinking well right now. If an expert was rapturous, he tasted before you bought and long before drinking-best date.

GUS CLEMENS

"Almost all wine you buy today is good to drink today", Lubbock Online, April 11, 2017


Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?

JENNIFER ROSEN

Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine


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


If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Grapes"

Tags: D. H. Lawrence


The social drinking of wine, during or after a meal, and in full cognizance of its delicate taste and evocative aura, seldom leads to drunkenness, and yet more seldom to loutish behavior. The drink problem that we witness in British cities stems from our inability to pay Bacchus his due. Thanks to cultural impoverishment, young people no longer have a repertoire of songs, poems, arguments or ideas with which to entertain one another in their cups. They drink to fill the moral vacuum generated by their culture, and while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

ROGER SCRUTON

I Drink Therefore I Am


Good wine is expensive.

ERIC TUCKER

The Artful Vegan


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

NEIL GAIMAN

Anansi Boys

Tags: Neil Gaiman


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