Great Wine Quotes

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

The older I get, the better I was.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

Language is wine upon the lips.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Wine makes all things possible.

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

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.