"My dear girl, there are some things that are just not done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ‘53 above the temperature of 38° Fahrenheit." - James Bond in Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger When asked whether he ever confused a Bordeaux with a Burgundy in a blind tasting, British wine legend Harry Waugh replied: "Not since lunch." "I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself." - Voltaire "Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized." - André Simon "It takes a lot of beer to make good wine." - Lou Preston, Preston Vineyards Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell." Then I have consumed two bottles." - Attributed to a Bishop of Seville "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. "If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul." - Clifton Fadiman The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. "A bottle of wine begs to be shared I have never met a miserly wine lover." - Clifton Fadiman "And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile." - Alexander Pope "Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes." - Horace the intellectual part of the meal." - Alexandre Dumas, 1873 " is like having children you love them all, but boy, are they different." - Bunny Finkelstein ( co-owner of Judd’s Hill Winery) "My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne." - John Maynard Keynes "Wine … offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased." - Ernest Hemingway "I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." - Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer "Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil." - Lord Byron Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living." - Napoleon "Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory – but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. "Life is too short to drink bad wine." - Anonymous "Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne." - Paul Claudel "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." - Thomas Jefferson "Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin." - Napoleon "He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret." (“claret” is the British term for red Bordeaux) - Samuel Johnson "Wine is life." - Petronius, Roman writer "I cook with wine sometimes I even add it to the food." - W. "Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that 'age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.'" - Francis Bacon, 1624 "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." - Pope John XXIII "Come quickly! I am tasting stars!" - Dom Perignon "Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance." - Benjamin Franklin "Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures."- Michael Broadbent "Beer is made by men, wine by God!" - Martin Luther "Compromises are for relationships, not wine." - Sir Robert Scott Caywood The older I get, the better I like it." - Anonymous "Wine is the most civilized thing in the world." - Ernest Hemingway. "Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy." - Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), the Scottish bacteriologist credited with discovering Penicillin in 1928. Wine Quotes Sarcasm, wit, pure brilliance – wine has inspired countless writers, aficionados, intellectuals and other passionate people to remark about this glorious beverage over the years – read on!
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