At the bottom of each page on Appellation Australia, there is now a random quote relating to wine in some way.
Do you have some favourite wine related quotes? Please leave a comment and let me know what other quotes inspire or amuse you about wine.
The list of quotes that I have been collecting recently and that are currently displayed follows;
In no particular order…
“You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one” – Len Evans
“… good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” – William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I have often wondered what the vintners buy, one half so precious as the goods they sell” – Omar Khayyam
“In vino veritas” – (Latin for “In wine, truth”) quoted by Alcibiades in Plato’s Symposium
“Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days” – W. C. Fields, My Little Chickadee (1940)
“Wine is bottled poetry” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine” – Anthelme Brillat Savarin
“Quickly bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may whet my mind and say something clever” – Aristophanes
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy” – Benjamin Franklin
“No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God” – Plato
“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized” – Andre Simo
“Wine is life” – Petronius
“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne” – John Maynard Keynes
“The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France” – Sam Diamond in Murder by Death (1976)
A couple of quotes for you.
“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.”
—JULIA CHILD
“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON
Thanks for those Mike.
One more
“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One a bit closer to home!
“The soft extractive note of an aged cork being withdrawn has the true sound of a man opening his heart.”
—WILLIAM SAMUEL BENWELL, Journey to Wine in Victoria
Thanks again Mike, some nice finds! It is an eminently quotable subject.
“Cabernet sauvignon is the black Labrador of wines—it comes up and licks you. Pinot noir is more cerebral. It’s a cat.”
—SCOTT RICH, winemaker, Moraga Vineyards, California
I’m not too sure about the cerebral=cat analogy, but my wife might agree with it.
The question is what wine would represent a Standard Poodle (or vice versa). Our big 65lb male (Strider – from LOTR) is a big bully on the surface but underneath that he’s just loves people. Sounds like Aussie shiraz to me!!
Mike
In water one sees one’s own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another – French proverb
Thanks Mike, I’m not really a dog (or a cat!) person, so I’m not sure about the poodle, from what I’ve seen they are stylish, refined, classy and just a bit snobby, how about mature red Bordeaux?
Thanks for that quote Duarte, I really like it!
Quotes were turned off temporarily while I upgraded the software this blog runs on, but they are back now.