Quotes About Wine

  •  … wine maketh glad the heart of man …
    –Psalm 104:15
  • One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and — one talks about it.
    –Edward VII (1841-1910)
  • What is the definition of a good wine? It should start and end with a smile.
    –William Sokolin
  • Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
    –Galileo (1564-1642)
  • To enjoy wine … what is needed is sense of smell, a sense of taste and an eye for colour. All else is experience and personal preference.
    –Cyril Ray
  • What better way to treat a guest than to drink wine together slowly, and with friends.
    –Henry McNulty
  • Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
    –Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
  • The taste of a good wine is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
    –Hubrecht Duijker
  • Only the first bottle is expensive.
    –French Proverb
  • A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
    –Clifton Fadiman
  • Wine is bottled poetry.
    –Robert Louis Stevenson
  • …drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.
    –Michael Broadbent
  • A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.
    –Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
  • There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.
    –Thomas Conklin