WINE QUOTES VII

quotations about wine

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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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


Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life.

JULIA CHILD

attributed, Wine: Grape Goddess


Many people seek an easy formula for choosing better wines. I'm often asked if I can suggest a book, or a class, or a particular wine magazine. But trying to master the vast array of wine producers from almost all corners of the earth is a long, though fascinating, slog. I'm still trudging along that endless route myself. Fortunately, there is a simpler solution that does not require poring over tomes that daunt you with complexity, or pamphlets that mislead you by promising easy expertise. All you have to do is remember three words: Wine is food.

ERIC ASIMOV

"Want to Pick Better Bottles? Repeat After Me: Wine Is Food", New York Times, March 6, 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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When full of wine we ask for water.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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I love to discover a $10 bottle of wine, a $15 bottle of wine, rather than the usual $70, $80 bottle of wine. Everybody likes to drink wine, so it's very important to have values.

PIERO SELVAGGIO

"The Once and Future Piero Selvaggio", Wine Spectator, April 30, 2017


We want to be the person who knows something about wine ... We are drinking for the experience and adventure of discovering something new.

MORGAN HARRIS

"Why millennials can't get enough wine", Fox News, April 6, 2017


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

LI BAI

"At a River Town"

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Next time your brain needs a challenge, skip the Sudoku and grab some wine. Enjoying a glass of wine makes the grey matter in our brains work harder than it would any other human activity -- like listening to music or solving a math problem.

LAUREN TOUSIGNANT

"Drinking wine is like burpees for your brain", New York Post, April 5, 2017


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


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


Wine is a great investment ... if you don't drink it.

VICKI DENIG

"Wine is a great investment ... if you don't drink it", Vine Pair, March 6, 2017


I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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Choosing a wine is a "mood thing," which can vary depending upon the food with which it's accompanied, or by something as seemingly unexceptional as the weather. On a steamy day ... a pinot grigio; on a wintry day, a cabernet sauvignon.

DENISE MAROTTA LOPES

"Inspired Bites: Restaurant is both popular eatery and wine shop", Cecil Daily, February 6, 2016


Wine is life, death, and love.

THOM ELKJER

Adventures in Wine

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Wine is perhaps the closest thing the planet has to an elixir of life.

THOM ELKJER

Adventures in Wine

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Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

ROGER SCRUTON

I Drink Therefore I Am


The god of wine is a fascinating and frightful image of the cosmic interplay of life and death which began after the first catastrophe. Dionysus shows the world the two faces of a truth which makes one insane.... He brings death and resurrection all at once because he himself has tasted the intensity of life as well as death.

PHOTINA RECH

Wine and Bread


One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.

KAREN MACNEIL

The Wine Bible

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