856 Quotes About Wine


  • Author Anna Downes
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    The shade of red changes as the wine matures, turning more orange or brown

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  • Author Rumer Godden
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    He rolled the trolley away and fetched the wine, which Mrs. Combie had kept in the hot kitchen to warm a little more after it had been shown in its cradle to Charles and carefully uncorked. “Let it breathe a few moments,” Vincent had said, and Lovejoy had looked at it, not daring to touch it; she had not known wine was alive.

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  • Author Amor Towles
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    a bottle of wine is the ultimate distillation of time and place; a poetic expression of individuality itself.

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  • Author Deborah Harkness
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    Got any more of that wine, Casanova?""I'm French, Sarah, not Italian. And I'm a vampire. I always have wine," Matthew said with a wicked smile. "There's no danger of running out.

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  • Author Marian Keyes
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    However, my sense of hospitality decreases in direct proportion to the number of glasses of wine that I've had, so by dessert and coffee time I am usually far too relaxed (all right then, far too drunk, if you will insist on calling a spade a spade) and no longer feel any need to clear the table.

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  • Author Liz Braswell
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    The Vintner's Guide to Precisely Categorizing the Wines of France mentioned all sorts of incredibly nuanced aromas in very expensive wine: slate, bark, cherries, strange herbs, all of which she had to imagine, since cidre and local vin ordinaire were all they had in the village.

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