Quotes About Wine

Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes,And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood.

And once he had got really drunk on wine, Then he would speak no language but Latin.

French soldiers literally drank the entire day, beginning with wine (un pauvre larme – "a little teardrop"), progressing to spirits (le café le pousse-café), climaxing with a gut-searing brandy (le tord-boyaux – "the gut-wringer"), and ending with la consolation, a sweet liqueur that the French soldier sipped as he lay in his bunk contemplating the next day's exertions. Far from imbuing the army with an ésprit

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

Here she was serving cosmic cookies and wine to a queen of enlightened predators and the head of a clan of ruthless assassins. Nothing much at stake except an interstellar alliance. Whee!

She's FREAKING out. I'm trying to calm her down. I may have to get wine. Or pot. Can I buy some pot? No. It's medicinal. No pot or I tell Mom.

Red wine?" Fiona squinted at the glass. "Kate, if you spill the wine on yourself, they'll bury you in this dress." "Maybe wine isn't a good idea," George said.

I said, Your brother is in bed with my wife. I added, I just took them up some wine in bed.

What larks we had, said James. When? When we were young. I could not recall any larks I had had with James. I poured out the wine and we sat in silence.

Hijo mío, la Santa Madre Iglesia está a la derecha, pero Jesucristo siempre estuvo a la izquierda —le decía enigmáticamente, entre sorbo y sorbo de vino de misa con que celebraba las visitas de Pedro Tercero.

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).

I'd love to visit South America, especially Argentina, as I'm a winemaker myself. They do a fantastic malbec, so it would be a dream to sample their grapes. New Zealand would be great, too. I'm a golfer, so it would combine both my loves.

My big love is red wine and I once went to a vineyard in the Marlborough region of New Zealand, where we drank exquisite pinot noir.

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

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

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them.

For him, any wine dated before four o'clock in the afternoon is vintage.

Let's toast a real wine expert - someone who knows a good rose goes best with bologna sandwiches.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Friends and wine should be old.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine.

This is wisdom: to love wine, beauty, and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.

She is such a health food nut, she thinks a grape is wine in pill form.

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth.