WINE QUOTES VII

quotations about wine

Wine is a passport to the world.

THOM ELKJER

Adventures in Wine

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I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

AIMEE BENDER

Willful Creatures


I can't make wine simple. But I can make it fun and beautiful, instead of esoteric and intimidating. The minute you realize it's OK to stumble along like the rest of us, asking questions and paying attention to your own reactions, then you'll begin what I hope will be a lifelong love affair with wine.

JENNIFER ROSEN

introduction, The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine


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


Don't mix wine and women.

CESARE PAVESE

The Beach

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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


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


When full of wine we ask for water.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Choosing a wine is a "mood thing," which can vary depending upon the food with which it's accompanied, or by something as seemingly unexceptional as the weather. On a steamy day ... a pinot grigio; on a wintry day, a cabernet sauvignon.

DENISE MAROTTA LOPES

"Inspired Bites: Restaurant is both popular eatery and wine shop", Cecil Daily, February 6, 2016


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

LI BAI

"At a River Town"

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Wine is bottled poetry.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

The Silverado Squatters

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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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To diners, wine pricing in restaurants seems less like money management and more like cash extraction.

MARK OLDMAN

"Why a $15 bottle of wine can get a 400 per cent markup in a restaurant", Stuff, March 10, 2017


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


We want to be the person who knows something about wine ... We are drinking for the experience and adventure of discovering something new.

MORGAN HARRIS

"Why millennials can't get enough wine", Fox News, April 6, 2017


The god of wine is a fascinating and frightful image of the cosmic interplay of life and death which began after the first catastrophe. Dionysus shows the world the two faces of a truth which makes one insane.... He brings death and resurrection all at once because he himself has tasted the intensity of life as well as death.

PHOTINA RECH

Wine and Bread


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

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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


All too often the wine is poured to nearly fill the glass ... this should be avoided, as it limits the headspace in the glass and consequently the bouquet, as well as eliminates swirling to increase the bouquet.

GORDON SHEPHERD

Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine


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

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