quotations about wine
Despite the much-friendlier climate that wine exists in these days, many people still feel a little intimidated by wine and food pairing. It is both super simple and super complex. The days of "red with meat and white with fish" are long gone as wines have evolved and our culinary avenues have widened. It is perfectly acceptable for you to ask for the restaurant's help. The staff has trained for this.
MARK TARBELL
"Is it OK or tacky to ask for a wine sample at a restaurant?", AZ Central, March 10, 2017
With a special bottle of wine, there is ample opportunity for angst about when to open it. On the one hand, an expert pontificates wine will be best in five years. Do you really have that much patience? What is the harm if you dare open it "early." Likely answer is no harm at all. Wine evolves, and a wine expert may believe it will continue to evolve, eventually reaching a plateau where it will not get better. That is the expert's recommended drink date. That does not mean the wine is not drinking well right now. If an expert was rapturous, he tasted before you bought and long before drinking-best date.
GUS CLEMENS
"Almost all wine you buy today is good to drink today", Lubbock Online, April 11, 2017
Wine lovers buy bottles of wine. Wine fanatics buy cases.
COURTNEY SCHIESSL
"The Ultimate Guide to Buying a Case of Wine", Wine Folly, April 20, 2018
Wine is a little bottle of teleportation. It takes you where it was made. The more you drink wine, the more you start to realize this tastes like Italy, or this tastes like France. How the hell can Italy have a taste?! Wine, that's how.
V
"6 Reasons Wine is the Greatest Beverage Of All Time", V is for Vino
For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
THOMAS BECON
Catechism
Wine is a great investment ... if you don't drink it.
VICKI DENIG
"Wine is a great investment ... if you don't drink it", Vine Pair, March 6, 2017
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
ARISTOPHANES
The Wasps
I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.
RACHEL HAWKINS
Hex Hall
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
The best way to learn about wine is to uncork a few bottles and start sampling.
HARVEY STEIMAN
Wine Spectator's
'Tis the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool -- it drives the
man to dancing ... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.
HOMER
The Odyssey
When you're new to wine drinking, the special wine seems esoteric, fetishistic, even faintly ridiculous. Simply put, you don't get it, like someone who doesn't follow sports listening to devoted fans rhapsodizing over a memorable game.
MATT KRAMER
"That Special Wine", Wine Spectator, April 30, 2017
The social drinking of wine, during or after a meal, and in full cognizance of its delicate taste and evocative aura, seldom leads to drunkenness, and yet more seldom to loutish behavior. The drink problem that we witness in British cities stems from our inability to pay Bacchus his due. Thanks to cultural impoverishment, young people no longer have a repertoire of songs, poems, arguments or ideas with which to entertain one another in their cups. They drink to fill the moral vacuum generated by their culture, and while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.
ROGER SCRUTON
I Drink Therefore I Am
The pleasure in any wine is subjective: we each bring something to what is there in the glass and interpret the result differently.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
GRAHAM GREENE
Monsignor Quixote
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
EURIPIDES
The Cyclops
Thus, while I quaff the genial wine,
I live mid transports quite divine.
ANACREON
Ode XXVII, Odes
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.
NEIL GAIMAN
Anansi Boys
Wine is life, death, and love.
THOM ELKJER
Adventures in Wine