Thursday, March 29, 2012

Wine proverbs

Good wine is a necessity of life for me. - Thomas Jefferson

Wine is the thinking person's health drink. - Dr. Phillip Norrie

I have enjoyed great health at a great age because every day since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles. - A Bishop of Seville

If your heart is warm with happiness, you'll need a glass - if sorrow chills your heart, have two! - Hannu Lehmusvuori

I cook with wine.  Sometimes I even add it to the food.  - W.C. Fields

No one that has drunk old wine wants new; for he says, "The old is nice." - Luke 5:39

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

Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art. - Robert Mondavi

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

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. - Aldous Huxley

Wine is the "healthiest and most health-giving of drinks." - Louis Pasteur

Sweetness belongs in the Mosel wine like the bubbles belong in the Champagne. - Nik Weiss

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

Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. - Anonymous

"Come quickly! I am tasting stars!" - Dom Perignon (1638-1714) at his first sip of champagne

"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