quotations about 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
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
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
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
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Life of Samuel Johnson
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 life, death, and love.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
Wine is a passport to the world.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
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 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
A river town. The autumn rain has stopped.
Our wine is gone. So, farewell!
LI BAI
"At a River Town"
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
LOUIS PASTEUR
attributed, Sura's Quotable Quotes, Adages and Sayings
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
In wine, there's truth.
PLINY THE ELDER
Natural History
Wine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The Silverado Squatters
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
Wine is like a living breathing thing. Like artwork. If you don't store it properly ... things happen to it.
SUSAN MCGREGOR
"Exclusive: Inside RoboVault, Storage for the Rich & Famous", CBS Miami, February 5, 2016
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
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"
Good wine is expensive.
ERIC TUCKER
The Artful Vegan