quotations about wine
Wine fills every corner and crevice of my life. I love drinking, be it for work or pleasure. And after 20 years in the wine industry, vino and I are very old friends. Even when I'm not working I've been known to absent-mindedly swirl and sniff my tea, forgetting it was a mug in my hand and not the stem of a wine glass.
HELEN MCGINN
"How giving up booze for just one month banished our wine critic's wrinkles", The Daily Mail, February 5, 2016
Here's my best estimation of what wine would have tasted like in Jesus's day. Because of no filtration, biblical wine was probably not smooth but a bit harsh from constant exposure to the organic material that we usually filter out today. The added must would increase the alcohol level a bit and extract an extra layer of tannin, making it a bit rough around the edges. But because of the must added, the residual sugar levels would be higher, which would add juicy roundness to the harshness. Red wine would probably be very dark in color, which is probably why in the Bible, Jesus uses it as a symbol for his blood.
KEITH BEAVERS
"What wine would Jesus drink?", Vinepair, April 11, 2017
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.
EURIPIDES
The Cyclops
Wine is very life to man if taken in moderation. Does he really live who lacks the wine which was created for his joy?
BEN SIRA
Sirach 31:27
Wine makes all things possible.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
The Mystery Knight
The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence.
EPICTETUS
Fragments
Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduced from an analysis of the physical elements in the glass. For me, an important part of the pleasure of wine is its reflection of the total environment that produced it. If I find in a wine no hint of where it was grown, no mark of the summer when the fruit ripened, and no indication of the usages common among those who made it, I am frustrated and disappointed. Because that is what a good, honest wine should offer.
GERALD ASHER
introduction, A Vineyard in My Glass
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Grapes"
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
HOMER
The Odyssey
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
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
attributed, The Grape Escapes
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 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
Great wine is great wine, regardless of the packaging; sadly the converse is also true.
CHRISTOPHER RECKFORD
"Box Wine -- Not that bad at all", Jamaica Observer, June 2, 2016
Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can ... and wine to accept the things I cannot.
ANONYMOUS
When we drink wine we come together, we are in communion with each other, and that is an ancient ritual.
TRUDIE STYLER
"Sting: I make good wine as revenge", The Drinks Business, April 12, 2017
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Belton Estate
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Mardi
Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.
SERENA SUTCLIFFE
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