Quotes About Wine

There wasn't a single teetotaler "among the world's really great men," Stoll wrote; on the contrary, he said, the roster of wine-loving giants ran from Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Columbus, Dickens, Lincoln, and Bismarck, not to mention Verdi, Wagner, and Admiral Dewey.

Langley estimates that because of global warming, the south of England will one day be among the world's largest producers of premium wine.

Chiara believed there was no malady that could not be cured by a bit of mineral water or a glass of good red wine.

You see, hannibal said, I happily give wine to my friends, but a man who drinks my wine and then rejects my friendship is a thief.

The idiot fringe have accused me of being like a Holocaust denier, which is ludicrous. Climate change is all about cycles, it's a natural thing and has always happened. When the Romans lived in Britain they were growing very good red grapes and making wine on the borders of Scotland. It was evidently a lot warmer.

The Dordogne Valley is one long smorgasbord.

The heavy fumes of gunpowder hanging about our ranks, as stimulating as sparkling wine, charged the atmosphere with the light and splendor of battle. Time was culminating under a flowing tide.

The monks who taught me," Hugh explained. "They lived in a monastery in that valley, built between two great trees, trees as eternal as the monks themselves. Under one bower the monks sat to meditate. That tree was called the Tree of Enlightenment. Under the other, the monks drank their wine. That tree was called the Tree of Eternal Life.

A decrease in the amount of time required to search for a wine product lowers the opportunity cost of choosing to purchase it, and therefore gives wine consumers an economic incentive to buy more of it.

Ninety percent of wine produced in the United States is sold to retailers and consumers through distributors

This means that thousands of wine firms must compete to sell their products through a relatively small number of highly concentrated distributors.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

The candles, the orange gleam of firelight where she'd been standing made me think of the warmth of the wine bar, as if the light itself might be a passageway back to the night before and the little wooden table where we had sat knee to knee, her face washed with the same orange-tinged light.

To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.

Let others choose the sons of mirth, To give a relish to their wine; I love the men of heavenly birth, Whose thoughts and language are divine.18

I don't know jack about wine, sorry." "You should learn. It is one of the true and ancient pleasures that make human existence tolerable.

This wine is austere, structured, with great finesse, and a long, lingering finish.

And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

The polished brass is mirror of the form, wine of the soul.

and 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.

Oh, come on, Fura." Her eyes were wide with anticipation. I knew she'd had a glass of wine when we came in but there was nothing foggy or reddened about them. "We're a stone's throw from Neural Alley. I've got some quoins. Let's go and live a little.

Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.

A tender affection, a heart glowing with love, the infusion of holy ardor, and the vigor of a spirit filled with zeal are obviously not acquired from any place other than the wine-cellar.