Wine Quotes - Page 69

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.

My glass of wine and I are besties.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in a while somebody will buy a 50-year-old bottle of wine and say, "Wait a minute. This has gone bad." The answer is, "Well, that wine isn't for drinking; that's for trading." These $100 bills aren't meant to circulate. They're not to spend on goods and services. They're a store of value. They're a form of saving.

Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our wines are sustainably farmed, carry the story of my family in every glass and are simply the most satisfying of all my personal endeavors.

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

What a life, without wine!

A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!

Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!

They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?" "Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

Wine is a chemical symphony. and The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really differentiate them. This differentiation cannot occur until we are thoroughly familiar with both. The same is true with wines.

Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.