WINE QUOTES VI

quotations about wine

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


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


Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

EURIPIDES

The Cyclops


Pure wine is fit for a royal table, while impure at any price proclaims an uneducated palate.

JAMES LEMOINE DENMAN

Pure Wine and How to Know It


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 the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

LOUIS PASTEUR

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If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

SANDRA BYRD

Bon Appetit


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

NEIL GAIMAN

Anansi Boys

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Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

MARVIN R. SHANKEN

Wine Spectator's Pocket Guide to Wine


So wines at the time of the Bible were big, round, juicy, austere wines, red or amber in color. That austerity was often cut with water. It was basically required in the ancient world to dilute your wine with a little bit of water to round it out, and you were seen as a barbarian if you didn't do so.

KEITH BEAVERS

"What wine would Jesus drink?", Vinepair, April 11, 2017


The love of wine is a good man's failing.

ARISTOPHANES

The Wasps


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


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

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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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In our egalitarian era, it's unpalatable to suggest that you have to bring something--knowledge, experience, even humility--to a wine, young or old, in order to "get it." But it's so. Not every wine is "Delicious!"

MATT KRAMER

"What You Bring to It", Wine Spectator, March 21, 2017


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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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

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Wine is better for brains than math, scientist claims.

JERRIANN SULLIVAN

"Rejoice! Science Says Drinking Wine Is Good For Your Brain", Scary Mommy, April 11, 2017


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 passport to the world.

THOM ELKJER

Adventures in Wine

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