Quotes About Wine

Tea is much more delicate than wine… The people who respond best to the intricacies of tea are people who enjoy wine. — JAMES LABE, tea sommelier/owner, Teahouse Kuan Yin (Seattle)

Assam tea goes very well after white wine. —MICHAEL OBNOWLENNY, Canada's first tea sommelier

TIDBIT: At dinner with one of his daughters while researching this book, we learned that Bruce Willis drinks "nothing but Opus One," a Cabernet Sauvignon-based Bordeaux-style blend from Napa Valley.

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

The Rubber Soul woman stays up late drinking wine on her rug after midnight, until it's time for bed. She speaks languages he can't translate. She's not impressed by the Beatle charm—when you say she's looking good, she acts as if it's understood. She's cool. She makes the Rubber Soul man feel like a real nowhere boy.

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.

Go fetch to me a pint o wine, an fill it in a silver tassie.

There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O' the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O' the Shadows.

Love dissolves truth like wine the pearl.

I need a jug of wine and a book of poetry, Half a loaf for a bite to eat, Then you and I, seated in a deserted spot, Will have more wealth than a Sultan's realm. – Omar Khayyam

You have to grow about 800 grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is.

From vine to finish. A single grape the start of it, this unlabeled bottle right here in my hand the end of it, the eight hundred grapes inside.

My lunch consisted of a glass of wine (which the waiter solemnly called "grape juice")

Grapes from this mountain region yield a wine that bubbles ever so slightly; an undertone of sulphur and rock. Ask for red wine at Lakones and they will bring you a glass of volcano's blood.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

And now, I believe, protocol insists that we open a bottle or a dozen of wine and make some preliminary discussion of security, introduction protocols, and so on. Fortunately about the wine, and regrettably about everything else, you are correct.

My dove my little one tonight there will be wine and drunken suitors from the logging camps to pin you down in the outlying lands of sleep where all roads lead back to the home-village and water may be walked on)

Then there was the even odder incident of Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who went out to meet Abraham, bearing bread and wine after the fight was over and the kings were all sunk in the slime-pits. Who was this priest of a forgotten worship whom Abraham honoured? I