quotations about wine
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
ERNEST DOWSON
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
None who has known the charity of wine,
Its pity, the cool logic of its spell
Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell
In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.
DONALD EVANS
"Farewell to Wine"
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Grapes"
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
Thus, while I quaff the genial wine,
I live mid transports quite divine.
ANACREON
Ode XXVII, Odes
Now let you and me buy wine today!
Why say we have not the price?
My horse spotted with five flowers,
My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold,
These I will take out, and call my boy
To barter them for sweet wine.
And with you twain, let me forget
The sorrow of ten thousand ages!
LI BAI
"An Exhortation"
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
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
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
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
GRAHAM GREENE
Monsignor Quixote
The best way to learn about wine is to uncork a few bottles and start sampling.
HARVEY STEIMAN
Wine Spectator's
Pancakes and wine is not a slot that exists in my life. Does anyone drink wine with pancakes? If they do, would they even mind what that wine was?
VICTORIA MOORE
"Which wine should I drink with pancakes?", The Telegraph, February 6, 2016
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 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
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
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.
NEIL GAIMAN
Anansi Boys
When you're new to wine drinking, the special wine seems esoteric, fetishistic, even faintly ridiculous. Simply put, you don't get it, like someone who doesn't follow sports listening to devoted fans rhapsodizing over a memorable game.
MATT KRAMER
"That Special Wine", Wine Spectator, April 30, 2017
If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.
SANDRA BYRD
Bon Appetit
Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.
JACK LALANNE
"30 Inspirational health quotes by fitness guru Jack LaLanne", Examiner, May 18, 2013
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