Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.
Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either.
Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis and Dionysus. Love, revenge, wine. Very helpful.
It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping, the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from chattering and the throat from rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling, the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking.
Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!
The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
When I get older losing my hair many years from now, Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.