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It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.
GERALD ASHER, The Pleasures of Wine
The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its very beginning as few, if any, other products do. Textiles, pottery, bread ... there are other objects of daily use that we can also trace back to the Stone Age. Yet wine alone is charged with sacramental meaning, with healing powers; indeed with a life of its own.
HUGH JOHNSON, Hugh Johnson's Story of Wine
Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered.
RAY BRADBURY, Dandelion Wine
Great wines taste like they come from somewhere. Lesser wines taste interchangeable; they could come from anywhere. You can't fake somewhereness. You can't manufacture it ... but when you taste a wine that has it, you know.
MATT KRAMER, Making Sense of Wine
Wine is a highly personal experience. You may like something your neighbor hates, just as with food. Your bitter is the next person's sweet.
CATHERINE FALLIS, Wine: Grape Goddess Guides to Good Living
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
The pairing of food and wine is a complex and highly inexact science. It is fraught with out-moded rules and a propensity for generalizations.
SID GOLDSTEIN, The Wine Lover's Cookbook
Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.
GERALD ASHER, The Pleasures of Wine
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.
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Belton Estate
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
THOMAS BECON, Catechism
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
Wine contains all four basic tastes. The sweet taste is provided by the alchohol and, where present, its sugars; sour taste comes from the free organic acids; the salt taste from the salts; the bitter taste from the wine's phenolic components, generally called tannins. In tasting wine, these four tastes are not perceived at the same time, they become apparent one after the other.
EMILE PEYNAUD, Knowing and Making Wine
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
M.F.K. FISHER, introduction, Vin et Fromage
Wine is older than history. Humans didn't invent wine. We discovered it.
PHILIP SELDON, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
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.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life.
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