856 Quotes About Wine

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.

Best wines with character have abyss within.

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a moment you might imagine you’ve been mysteriously wafted to the French countryside, but no, this is the East End of Long Island, the most exciting new wine region in North America. You’ve reached your destination, but your journey of discovery has barely begun

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

AMUSING MYSELFFacing my wine, I did not see the dusk,Falling blossoms have filled the folds of my clothes.Drunk, I rise and approach the moon in the stream,Birds are far off, people too are few.

The sun is touching every doorand making wonder of the wheat.The first wine is pink in colour,is sweet with the sweetness of a child,the second wine is able-bodied,strong like the voice of a sailor,the third wine is a topaz, isa poppy and a fire in one.My house has both the sea and the earth,my woman has great eyesthe colour of wild hazelnut,when night comes down, the seaputs on a dress of white and green...