Quotes About Wine

Although I generally avoid the cloyingly sweet wines, I have used them for poaching fruit.

Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away.

At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones with more bottle variation. If I want to take a risk, I'll go bungee-jumping.

The first confrontation I had with an Aussie wine was a well-known Cabernet/Shiraz and it reminded me of boiled sweets. I find a lot of Australian wines unsubtle.

However, tonight will be different because we're serving wine plus Grandpa's special Christmas punch, which has anyone who drinks it believing they can see into the future.

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.

I used to be a poet. My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold. Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade. Now I am old... drunk on wine and candle fumes. Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die. I used to be a poet and my words were gold.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

The artist's greatest creation began the night he washed his memory of his failures rubbed opium on his lips drank the wine that women offered him and lay down and wept.

In vino veritas: "In wine there is truth.

You can be drunk on wine.You can be drunk on success.I'm just drunk on the success of my wine.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Curious, that wine which did not go to one's head. Or were our heads impermeable to all but music and words? So it seems.

But listen, I must finish Lawrence, Joyce & Proust. It's driving me nuts. I feel like a slacker. I'll spit them out alive, if necessary. I'm screwed up to a frenzy. Vino, vino . . . I wish I had the taste for it. Vino isn't strong enough. It's blood I want. Henry

El amor es un líquido incoloro, volátil. El amor se inflama y arde. El amor no deja residuos: ni humo ni ceniza. El amor es un veneno disfrazado de vino.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Aunque el mosto fermente de manera impredecible, al final tendrá que dar vino.

Wer Gutes will, der sei erst gut; Wer Freude will, besänftige sein Blut; Wer Wein verlangt, der keltre reife Trauben; Wer Wunder hofft, der stärke seinen Glauben.

La vita è troppo breve per bere vini mediocri

I wish I was in Spain now, a glass of wine and a plate of ham." He sighs. "Instead of which I've got all this shit to sort out.

A luncheon guest at the Bank of France is generally told apologetically, "In the tradition of the bank, we serve only simple fare," but what follows is a repast during which the constant discussion of vintages makes any discussion of banking awkward, if not impossible, and at which the tradition of simplicity is honored, apparently, by the serving of only one wine before the cognac.