quotations about wine
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
PROVERBS 20:1
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.
SERENA SUTCLIFFE
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Mardi
Despite the much-friendlier climate that wine exists in these days, many people still feel a little intimidated by wine and food pairing. It is both super simple and super complex. The days of "red with meat and white with fish" are long gone as wines have evolved and our culinary avenues have widened. It is perfectly acceptable for you to ask for the restaurant's help. The staff has trained for this.
MARK TARBELL
"Is it OK or tacky to ask for a wine sample at a restaurant?", AZ Central, March 10, 2017
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
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
Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can ... and wine to accept the things I cannot.
ANONYMOUS
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
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
'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
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
When we drink wine we come together, we are in communion with each other, and that is an ancient ritual.
TRUDIE STYLER
"Sting: I make good wine as revenge", The Drinks Business, April 12, 2017
Wine is like a living breathing thing. Like artwork. If you don't store it properly ... things happen to it.
SUSAN MCGREGOR
"Exclusive: Inside RoboVault, Storage for the Rich & Famous", CBS Miami, February 5, 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
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
For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
THOMAS BECON
Catechism
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
One of the things I've found in my preliminary research is that people are more negatively sensitive to the knowledge that a wine is cheap than they are positively sensitive to the knowledge that a wine is expensive. If I serve you a wine and tell you that it costs $4, you'll have a much more negative experience of the wine. It really biases you against the wine even more strongly than it biases you towards the wine when you know it costs $100.
ROBIN GOLDSTEIN
"Price is Right? Drinking Premium Wine is Image Therapy--If We Know It's Pricey", California Magazine, May 28, 2016
In wine, there's truth.
PLINY THE ELDER
Natural History
If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.
SANDRA BYRD
Bon Appetit