Fine Wineas
wine worth talking about.— Hugh Johnson in the first issue of The World of Fine Wine.
Fine Wine is wine worth talking about or thinking about, a wine of meditation.
Quando sono nato, i primi profumi che ho sentito sono stati quelli del latte di mia mamma e del vino di mio nonno.— Bruno Giacosa
When I was born, the first scents I smelled were those of my mother's milk and my grandfather's wine.
Wine is something we intercept between juice and vinegar.— Charles Massoud, Paumanok Vineyards
No nation is druken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.— Thomas Jefferson
May God give you of heaven's dew and of earth's richness -- an abundance of grain and new wine.— Isaac to his son Jacob in Genesis 27:28
Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.— Napoleon.
Wine connects man and nature and time in a way nothing else does.— Hugh Johnson.
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.— Ernest Hemingway.
Beer is made by men, wine by God!— Martin Luther.
Where there is no wine there is no love.— Euripedes.
Work is the scourge of the drinking classes.— Oscar Wilde
A man is never drunk if he can lie on the floor without holding on.— Joe E. Lewis
Only a pervert would open a good bottle of wine without first considering who to drink it with.— Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet.
Nebbiolo is contrapuntal like Bach, with multiple complex themes or melodies playing at different levels at the same time, different but fitting together.— Chris Thile
Cabernet is to John Wayne, as Nebbiolo is to Marcello Mastroianni. Cabernet has a strong personality, open, easily understood and dominating. If Cabernet were a man, he would do his duty every night in the bedroom, but always in the same way. Nebbiolo, on the other hand, would be the brooding, quiet man in the corner, harder to understand but infinitely more complex.— Angelo Gaja [Wislocki, Amy, Decanter.com (2009). "Gaja – presented by Angelo Gaja"]
I like to drink wine more than I used to.
It's good for ya, Pop.
Anyway I'm drinkin' more.
In the world of wine collecting, the heralded light at the end of the tunnel is always a freight train, bearing the next great— Victor Hongmust-buyvintage.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.— Aristophanes
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.— Homer, The Odyssey
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