WINE QUOTES VI

quotations about wine


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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
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"How to Drink Wine Without Looking Dumb or Going Broke", City Pages, February 3, 2016


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Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

MARVIN R. SHANKEN

Wine Spectator's Pocket Guide to Wine


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


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


The love of wine is a good man's failing.

ARISTOPHANES

The Wasps


If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

SANDRA BYRD

Bon Appetit


In wine, there's truth.

PLINY THE ELDER

Natural History

Tags: Pliny the Elder


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


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


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


Good wine is expensive.

ERIC TUCKER

The Artful Vegan


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

Tags: George Eliot


In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A Moveable Feast

Tags: Ernest Hemingway


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


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


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

Tags: Aristophanes


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


Wine is better for brains than math, scientist claims.

JERRIANN SULLIVAN

"Rejoice! Science Says Drinking Wine Is Good For Your Brain", Scary Mommy, April 11, 2017


This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Tags: Samuel Johnson


Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

JENNIFER ROSEN

introduction, The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine