Fun Wine Quotes
Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.”
Charles Edward Montague
“Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”
Samuel Johnson
“I like Champagne, because it always tastes as though my foot’s asleep.”
Art Buchwald
“Wine is a food.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Wine can be considered with good reason as the most healthful and the most hygienic of all beverages.”
Louis Pasteur
“The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.”
Louis Pasteur
- “Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. — Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic
- “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
- “Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1771
- “Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary.” – Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra
- “Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.” — Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 9:10
“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?” — W.C. Fields
“The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine.” — Thucydides
“We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. — Charles Baudelaire
“I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.” — Voltaire
“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.” — Clifton Fadiman