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Quotes About Wine

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.
~ Jeff Smith
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
~ Pliny the Elder
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.
~ Unknown
A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.
~ John Ciardi
I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
~ Alexander Pope
Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health
~ Thomas Jefferson
I enjoy wine collecting and great food.
~ Deep Roy
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
~ Fran Lebowitz
To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.
~ Gordon Ramsay
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
~ Aristophanes
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
A new friend is like new wine when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
~ Apocrypha
Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.
~ Demetri Martin
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy
~ Anthony Powell
Food - taken to support life Wine - taken to enrichen life Food and Wine - taken to fulfill life
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.
~ Mario Lemieux
He'd heard of elvenblossom wine. It was known for its stultifying bouquet of fruit blossoms and the battle-axe power of its alcohol content. Only those of elven blood could stomach the sweet stuff, he'd heard, and it was the alcoholic equivalent of being kicked in the head by a centaur.
~ Unknown