856 Quotes About Wine

  • Author Victoria Abbott Riccardi
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    A small frosted glass of umeshu (plum wine) sat on a white paper coaster toward the top. The syrupy wine, actually made from small Japanese apricots, had a honeyed smoothness and a fruity finish that left behind a streak of warmth.

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  • Author Melody Lee
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    You drink your whiskey,I’ll drink my wine.Later when we’re fevered and tipsywe’ll make savage love divine.Until then,let’s swim in the warm, opal sea of each other.Crash a few innocent waves,skinny dip, laugh and get lost in thoseblood-pumping hearts,and for a timeforget all our broken parts.

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  • Author Lucy Worsley
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    There were, of course, compensatory advantages to growing older. ‘As I must leave off being young,’ Jane admitted, ‘I find many Douceurs … I am put on the Sofa near the Fire & can drink as much wine as I like.

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  • Author Victor Hugo
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    Wine, for serious drunks, enjoys only a limited success. There is, concerning inebriation, black magic and white magic; wine is only white magic.

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  • Author Marsha Mehran
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    Ah, Shiraz! What a town! The rose gardens, the nightingales. Paradise. You know, I got a hold of some wine while I was there. I'll never forget that bouquet." Julian cleared his throat. " 'Rose petals let us scatter and fill the cup with red wine, the firmaments let us shatter and come with a new design.' "He lifted his glass in a toast to Hafez's ode to the fermented grape.Marjan met his toast with her own glass.

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  • Author Nina Killham
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    He held up his glass to the light, then gave it a sniff.'It's got peach, oak, vanilla, lots of vanilla, Sue Ellen loves her vanilla...

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  • Author Stephanie Danler
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    Simone brought me a glass of the Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon Rosé Champagne. I shut my eyes: peaches, almonds, marzipan, rose petals, a whiff of gunpowder, and I had started a new year in New York City.

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