Quotes About Wine

I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art.

This wasn't the France I knew, which had always been as much about swimming in the sea as about anything else, about languorous holiday sunshine and whole days spent drinking wine and staring up at the clouds. No, this country seemed to be offering something dark and strange and new to me, in an entirely different language. If only I could learn to understand it.

This is why tourists come to wine country, not just to get tipsy from tiny pours of Cabernet Sauvignon, but to be inside this world, where every surface mirrors back the sun.

sauvignon blanc and turns to look out the window. "Africans can't do governments," he suddenly announces. "We are useless at it, disorganized." I close my newsmagazine and nod noncommittally. "And our institutions never work because we never pay our dues." He reaches up and presses his bell for more wine.

But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High—

“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my sonís game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.

May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.

Pharaohís cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”

He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.

With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.

With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.

and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year.

Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.