Wine Quotes

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

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.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Wine is bottled poetry.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.

When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Language is wine upon the lips.

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.