Wine Quotes

"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Wine is a peep-hole on a man."
-Alcaeus

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The new wine is dying on the vine. How much must you age before you're ageless?"
-Saul Williams

"Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder."
-Aldous Huxley

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."
-Isak Dinesen

"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?"
-Isak Dinesen

"A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist."
-Desiderius Erasmus

"What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?"
-Cyril Connolly

"Wine is bottled poetry."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds."
-Chinese Proverb

"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
-Heraclitus Of Ephesus

"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."
-Alice May Brock

"Wine resonates with its environment in ways we're just beginning to understand."
-Clark Smith

"There's a world of sparkling wine that doesn't come from that tiny place called Champagne...You may be pouring a lot of bubbles this season, but that doesn't mean you have to spend a lot of money."
-Joshua Wesson

"We always have a few bottles open at any given time for customers to try. If you've tasted it, you personalize the situation. You've tried it and you know if it's good. I'm not going to sell a wine if I can't recommend it."
-Connie Bounds

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
-Charles Baudelaire

"The one in Del Mar was the place to buy wine."
-Sean Fisher

"The crop value was $4.8 million and there were 762,000 gallons of wine produced."
-Tonya Rideout

"While Foster's scale and efficiency sees us better placed than anyone from a production perspective, the (Australian) market is struggling to absorb the huge volumes of wine that are discounting and squeezing sales margins."
-Trevor O'hoy

"While placing a critter on a label doesn't guarantee success, it is important that wine makers realize that there is a segment of consumers who don't want to have to take wine too seriously. Not only are they willing to have fun with wine, they may just feel 'good' about an animal label presentation."
-Danny Brager

"The Fox reopens as a very flexible space, an art deco convention center really. For example, we can use the new lobby spaces as dinner seating for banquets. We have also added a facility that caterers can use to serve meals, and we'll have a license for beer and wine."
-Herb Stratford

"It's been incredibly satisfying to see music lovers embrace the concept - we look forward to another summer of great music, food and wine in the best wineries."
-Michael Newton

"In the case of the wine cellar, it is so private and quiet, and it's away from the maddening crowd. There is nobody walking by. The atmosphere is tremendous. It is a very rare place to have a working wine cellar to have your dinner in."
-Bruce Snyder

"Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad."
-David Denby

"This is very effective, particularly in department stores. Wide aisles are generally used by supermarkets to create space around goods which shoppers will always buy, such as frozen food, while narrower aisles help sell more impulse-driven items such as cakes or wine."
-Karl Mckeever