quotations about wine
Wine is a passport to the world.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
Despite the much-friendlier climate that wine exists in these days, many people still feel a little intimidated by wine and food pairing. It is both super simple and super complex. The days of "red with meat and white with fish" are long gone as wines have evolved and our culinary avenues have widened. It is perfectly acceptable for you to ask for the restaurant's help. The staff has trained for this.
MARK TARBELL
"Is it OK or tacky to ask for a wine sample at a restaurant?", AZ Central, March 10, 2017
For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
THOMAS BECON
Catechism
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
GRAHAM GREENE
Monsignor Quixote
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 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
The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.
MIREILLE GUILIANO
French Women for All Seasons
I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.
RACHEL HAWKINS
Hex Hall
Wine lovers buy bottles of wine. Wine fanatics buy cases.
COURTNEY SCHIESSL
"The Ultimate Guide to Buying a Case of Wine", Wine Folly, April 20, 2018
If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.
SANDRA BYRD
Bon Appetit
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
With a special bottle of wine, there is ample opportunity for angst about when to open it. On the one hand, an expert pontificates wine will be best in five years. Do you really have that much patience? What is the harm if you dare open it "early." Likely answer is no harm at all. Wine evolves, and a wine expert may believe it will continue to evolve, eventually reaching a plateau where it will not get better. That is the expert's recommended drink date. That does not mean the wine is not drinking well right now. If an expert was rapturous, he tasted before you bought and long before drinking-best date.
GUS CLEMENS
"Almost all wine you buy today is good to drink today", Lubbock Online, April 11, 2017
'Tis the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool -- it drives the
man to dancing ... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.
HOMER
The Odyssey
The best way to learn about wine is to uncork a few bottles and start sampling.
HARVEY STEIMAN
Wine Spectator's
The social drinking of wine, during or after a meal, and in full cognizance of its delicate taste and evocative aura, seldom leads to drunkenness, and yet more seldom to loutish behavior. The drink problem that we witness in British cities stems from our inability to pay Bacchus his due. Thanks to cultural impoverishment, young people no longer have a repertoire of songs, poems, arguments or ideas with which to entertain one another in their cups. They drink to fill the moral vacuum generated by their culture, and while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.
ROGER SCRUTON
I Drink Therefore I Am
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
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
EURIPIDES
The Cyclops
The pleasure in any wine is subjective: we each bring something to what is there in the glass and interpret the result differently.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
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