Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
~ Andre Simon, "Commonsense of Wine"
Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.
Clement Freud
"...No-one Else Has Complained"
Clement Freud
"...No-one Else Has Complained"
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. ~ Anonymous
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half of wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Consuming wine in moderation daily will help people to die young as late as possible. ~ Dr Philip Norrie
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was born in Ireland and was the owner of Drury Lane Theatre. On February 24, 1809, the theatre burned down. He observed the conflagration while drinking a glass of wine, and Sheridan was famously reported to have said: “A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.”
Wine is the thinking person's health drink.
~Dr. Phillip Norrie
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine,
Stephen Phillips (1845-1915)
Ulysses, III. ii
Ulysses, III. ii
If a life of wine, women and song becomes too much, give up the singing. ~ Anonymous
I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles.
~ A Bishop of Seville
Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It's culture. It's the essence of civilization and the art of living. ~ Robert Mondavi, Autobiography, "Harvests of Joy"
Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.
~ Andrew Sharp, Winemaster's Secrets
Artists and poets still find life's meaning in a glass of wine.
~ Joy Sterling, A Cultivated Life
Like human beings, a wine's taste is going to depend a great deal on its origins and its upbringing.
~ Linda Johnson-Bell, Pairing Wine and Food
Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.
~ Jeff Cox, From Vines to Wines
Joy is the best of wine.
~ George Eliot, Silas Marner
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
~ Pliny the Elder, Natural History
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
~ John Gay, Fables
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
~ Louis Pasteur
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
~ Cardinal Richeleu
It's impossible to separate a great wine from a great experience.
~ Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine
Wine is bottled poetry.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson