Delgadillo

"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

"Away with you, water, destruction of wine!"
Catullus

"After-dinner talk
Across the walnuts and the wine."
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

"The good talk that is inseparable from a wine dinner is even more important than the wines that are being served. Never bring up your better bottles if you are entertaining a man who cannot talk. Keep your treasures for a night when those few who are nearest to your heart can gather round your table, free from care, with latchkeys in their pockets and no last train to catch."
Maurice Healy, Claret

"With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows."
John Townsend Trowbridge

"Wine has been a part of civilized life for some seven thousand years. It is the only beverage that feeds the body, soul and spirit of man and at the same time stimulates the mind."
Robert Mondavi, "Harvests Of Joy," Autobiography

"So far as drinking is concerned, you have my hearty approval; for wine does of a truth moisten the soul and lull our griefs to sleep....[and with small cups] we shall ...be brought by its gentle persuasion to a more sportive mood."
Xenophon, quoting Socrates

"Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."
Samuel Johnson

"Wine ...moderately drunken
It doth quicken a man's wits,
It doth comfort the heart."
Andrew Boorde, 1562

"One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and--one talks about it."
King Edward VII

"Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth."
Charles Edward Montague

"Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
L. Bacon

"Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that will."
Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion, 250

"Give me a bowl of wine:
have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have."
William Shakespeare, (Richard III).

"Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
L. Bacon

When Lily Bollinger was asked "When do you drink champagne?", she replied:
"I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty."

"A hard drinker, being at the table, was offered grapes for dessert. 'Thank you,' said he, pushing the dish away from him, 'but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in pills.'"
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "The Physiology of Taste"

"Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It's culture. It's the essence of civilization and the art of living." Robert Mondavi

"Wine can be considered with good reason as the most healthful and the most hygienic of all beverages." Louis Pasteur

"I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company." Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

"The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare...On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice." Adam Smith

"Fermented beverages have been preferred over water throughout the ages: they are safer, provide psychotropic effects, and are more nutritious. Some have even said alcohol was the primary agent for the development of Western civilization, since more healthy individuals (even if inebriated much of the time) lived longer and had greater reproductive success." Dr. Patrick McGovern, et al., The Origin & Ancient History of Wine

"In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. 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." Ernest Hemingwayth

"By making this wine vine 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." Thomas Jefferson

"A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows." George Bernard Shaw

"Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them." Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary." The Talmud

"It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife." Aldous Huxley, assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne.

"Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness." William Shakespeare, (Julius Caesar)

"The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry." Louis Pasteur

"Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat." Anonymous

"Wine fills the heart with courage." Plato

"Wine is wont to show the mind of man." Theogenis

"Nothing equals the joy of the drinker except the joy of the wine being drunk." Anonymous

"Wine is a food." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water!" Galileo Gallilei

"Good wine needs no bush." William Shakespeare, ( As You Like It, Epilogue)

"I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst." Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used." William Shakespeare, ( Othello)

"I like Champagne, because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep." Art Buchwald

"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." Ben Johnson

"When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself." Plato

"How is Champagne made? By sheer genius, sir, sheer genius!" Anonymous, Conversation At White's Club, London

"Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance." Epicurus

"Where there is no wine there is no love." Euripides

"May our love be like good wine, grow stronger as it grows older." Old English Toast

"Burgundy for Kings, Champagne for Duchesses, and claret for Gentlemen." French Proverb

"Wine improves with age - I like it the older I get." Anonymous

"Description of a corkscrew:...the wine lover's best friend and the rarest of tools." Anonymous

"A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!" Gustav Mahler, Das Lied Von Der Erde

"And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd." Sir Walter Scott

"By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank." Alec Waugh

"Drink a glass of wine after your soup and you steal a ruble from your doctor." Russian proverb

"Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art." Robert Mondavi, "Harvests Of Joy," Autobiography

"Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary." The Talmud

"What though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine." Thomas Moore

"Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized." Andre Simon, Commonsense of Wine

"The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars." Benjamin Franklin

"Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne!" Winston S. Churchill, 1918

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

"You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one." Len Evans

"I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate ... and I drink champagne when I lose to console myself." Napoleon

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world." Ernest Hemingway.

"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long " Johann Heinrich Voss

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts." Samuel Johnson

"Wine in itself is an excellent thing." Pope Pius XII Airen

"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine." St. Thomas Aquinas

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" W.C. Fields

"I am drinking the stars!" Dom Perignon, on his first sip of bubbly Champagne

"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne." Dorothy Parker

"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance." Benjamin Franklin