WINE QUOTES VI

quotations about 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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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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Wine is life, death, and love.

THOM ELKJER

Adventures in Wine

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Wine is a passport to the world.

THOM ELKJER

Adventures in Wine

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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


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


To diners, wine pricing in restaurants seems less like money management and more like cash extraction.

MARK OLDMAN

"Why a $15 bottle of wine can get a 400 per cent markup in a restaurant", Stuff, March 10, 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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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


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"


A river town. The autumn rain has stopped.
Our wine is gone. So, farewell!

LI BAI

"At a River Town"

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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


A $300 bottle of wine is a more affordable status marker than a sports car or designer handbag.

W. BLAKE GRAY

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


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


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


In wine, there's truth.

PLINY THE ELDER

Natural History

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Wine is bottled poetry.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

The Silverado Squatters

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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 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


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

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