WINE QUOTES VIII

quotations about wine

Wine is most comfortable in the temperature range that people are -- make that Eskimo-type people.

WILLIE GLUCKSTERN

The Wine Avenger


Wine is perhaps the closest thing the planet has to an elixir of life.

THOM ELKJER

Adventures in Wine

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So wines at the time of the Bible were big, round, juicy, austere wines, red or amber in color. That austerity was often cut with water. It was basically required in the ancient world to dilute your wine with a little bit of water to round it out, and you were seen as a barbarian if you didn't do so.

KEITH BEAVERS

"What wine would Jesus drink?", Vinepair, April 11, 2017


You may happen on a good bottle, but chances are you will not. For that, you need a store run by passionate devotees who do much of the advance work for you. A good wine shop or online merchant with a point of view, like a great butcher or baker, will have performed a rigorous selection process before making its wares available to consumers. Knowing that you are in a good wine shop can sharpen your decision-making down to issues of taste and occasion rather than quality.

ERIC ASIMOV

"Want to Pick Better Bottles? Repeat After Me: Wine Is Food", New York Times, March 6, 2017


Don't mix wine and women.

CESARE PAVESE

The Beach

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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 a mocker and beer is a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

PROVERBS 20:1


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


A river town. The autumn rain has stopped.
Our wine is gone. So, farewell!

LI BAI

"At a River Town"

Tags: Li Bai


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


Wine is literally the soil and its biodiversity, rain, wind, temperature and all that goes on during the seasons. A good winemaker merely guides the process and lets Mother Nature take her course.

MICHAEL ROBINSON

"Ensuring wine is climate in a bottle", The Royal Gazette, March 17, 2017


A lot of people want to take their wife out to dinner. They want to order a bottle of Champagne and they want other people to see the bottle. Wine is an adjunct. People can see it the same way they can see your clothes.

PAUL LUKACS

"Price is Right? Drinking Premium Wine is Image Therapy--If We Know It's Pricey", California Magazine, May 28, 2016


To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,
We drained a hundred jugs of wine.

LI BAI

"A Mountain Revelry"

Tags: Li Bai


The taste is not in the wine; the taste is created by the brain of the wine taster.

GORDON SHEPHERD

Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine


Bad wine is never worth good water.

JAMES LEMOINE DENMAN

Pure Wine and How to Know It

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Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

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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


It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine
It's summertime

KENNY CHESNEY

"Summertime"


French wine is absolutely worthless -- at least until I drink it.

ANDERS YDSTEDT

Values4Europe, April 18, 2018

Tags: France


Fumes of wine shorten the long road.

BAI JUYI

"After Passing the Examination"

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