quotations about wine
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
HOMER
The Odyssey
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 valued by its price, not its flavour.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Belton Estate
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
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
In vino veritas, the Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote. In wine is truth. It's an old Latin phrase making fun of people who speak their minds under the influence of alcohol.... Today, in vino veritas has been embraced by wine lovers as a positive, or at least a nuanced, statement. There is always that negative connotation of loose-lipped inebriation, but it also hints of a more positive truth, hidden within ourselves and revealed through wine's mystical quality to elevate our spirit, as the wine we take at communion brings us closer to God.
DAVE MCINTYRE
"In Vino Veritas", WineLine, June 4, 2018
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
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
For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
THOMAS BECON
Catechism
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
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
GRAHAM GREENE
Monsignor Quixote
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 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
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
Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can ... and wine to accept the things I cannot.
ANONYMOUS
Wine is a little bottle of teleportation. It takes you where it was made. The more you drink wine, the more you start to realize this tastes like Italy, or this tastes like France. How the hell can Italy have a taste?! Wine, that's how.
V
"6 Reasons Wine is the Greatest Beverage Of All Time", V is for Vino
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
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
'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
Wine is a passport to the world.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine