WINE QUOTES
quotations about wine
Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered.
RAY BRADBURY
Dandelion Wine
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.
ANONYMOUS
Wine. How classy people get wasted.
ANONYMOUS
Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.
GERALD ASHER
The Pleasures of Wine
I desire only the long ecstasy of wine,
And desire not to awaken.
LI BAI
"An Exhortation"
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.
HORACE
Odes
Our experience of a wine, any wine, is richly colored by context: our companions, the time of day, the effect of accompanying food, the shape and size of the glass, the wine's temperature and the ambiance of where we are drinking. Not least is our receptivity, which is strongly affected by the tidal pull of our mood and psychological need of the moment. ("Tough day at the office, dear?")
MATT KRAMER
"What You Bring to It", Wine Spectator, March 21, 2017
The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.
MARVIN R. SHANKEN
Wine Spectator's Pocket Guide to Wine
Why is it that some wine is touted as award winning and when I taste it, I am just kind of bored? It isn't bad, it just doesn't animate my senses. Predictable. I want to be electrified by the wine I taste.... I want to try blends and varietals that are taboo, forgotten or have yet to be discovered. Remember: the rules were created by humans. Grapes are an offering of mother-nature, and since when has she given a hoot about our arbitrary rules?
JOANNA SNAWDER-MANZO
"'17 into '18: Inviting MORE", Wine is my favorite snack, January 21, 2018
Great wines taste like they come from somewhere. Lesser wines taste interchangeable; they could come from anywhere. You can't fake somewhereness. You can't manufacture it ... but when you taste a wine that has it, you know.
MATT KRAMER
Making Sense of Wine
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
CLIFTON FADIMAN
Any Number Can Play
Wine is an addition to human society, provided it is used to embolden conversation, and provided conversation remains civilized and general. We are appalled by the drunkenness in our city streets, and many are tempted to blame alcohol for the riot, since alcohol is part of its cause. But public drunkenness, of the kind that led to prohibition, arose because people were drinking the wrong things in the wrong way. It was not wine but its absence that caused the gin-sodden drunkenness of eighteenth-century London, and Jefferson was surely right to argue that, in the American context, "wine is the only antidote to whiskey."
ROGER SCRUTON
I Drink Therefore I Am
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.
GERALD ASHER
The Pleasures of Wine
More and more wine is a snare for the fool; it lessens his strength and multiplies his wounds.
BEN SIRA
Sirach 31:30
If you hold a premium bottle for years, there is great reluctance to part with something so embedded in your wine fantasies. The joy of seeing that special bottle in your stash may be greater than drinking it. You are not a bad person if you leave it there.
GUS CLEMENS
"Almost all wine you buy today is good to drink today", Lubbock Online, April 11, 2017
If the wine is good, a bad match will not destroy dinner.
HARVEY STEIMAN
Wine Spectator's
Wine is like a liquid representation of who [the winemakers] are and what makes them tick. It's also all about making memories. Your olfactory senses are intrinsically linked to memory, so when you're sharing a bottle of wine, and then having it again, you're dredging up memories. And for me that's just a super romantic, beautiful, poetic thing.
BRIE ROLAND
"How to Drink Wine Without Looking Dumb or Going Broke", City Pages, February 3, 2016
Getting to know wine is getting to know the world. More than just a complex and delicious drink, wine is history, geography, the very soil from which the grapes are grown. It opens us to life on a deeper level and it enriches and enhances our days.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine." "Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet." They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, "Everyone brings the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
BIBLE
JOHN 2:1-10
Pop. Glug, glug, glug. Chink. Ahhh. These are a few of my favourite noises, marking as they do the most sacred of my nightly rituals. Wine O'Clock.
HELEN MCGINN
"How giving up booze for just one month banished our wine critic's wrinkles", The Daily Mail, February 5, 2016