50 Quotes About Wine

Wine has long been a source of inspiration and enjoyment, weaving its way through the tapestry of human culture. From the vineyards of ancient civilizations to the bustling wine bars of today, this timeless elixir has sparked the eloquence of poets, the passion of lovers, and the wisdom of sages. In the spirit of celebration and reflection, we have gathered a curated collection of the top 50 quotes about wine. Each quote is a testament to the enduring allure of wine, capturing its complexity, beauty, and the unique bond it creates between those who share in its pleasures. Whether you are a seasoned sommelier or a casual enthusiast, these words promise to enhance your appreciation of the world of wine.

1. “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” - W.C. Fields

2. “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” - Ernest Hemingway

3. “and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.” - Aimee Bender

4. “Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long” - noauthor

5. “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.” - Louis Pasteur

6. “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” - John Keats

7. “Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human” - Paul Tillich

8. “Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover” - Clifton Fadiman

10. “Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.” - Andre Simon

11. “in the abstract art of cooking,ingredients trump appliances,passion supersedes expertise,creativity triumphs over technique,spontaneity inspires invention,and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.” - Bob Blumer

12. “There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!” - Jalaluddin Rumi

13. “I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.” - Kyril Bonfiglioli

14. “The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.” - Craig Ferguson

15. “How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yoursWill make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.When once you hear the roses are in bloom,Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.” - Omar Khayyám

16. “Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it''What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?''Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.” - James Boswell

17. “I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.” - Megan Whalen Turner

18. “When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face on the cork.” - Miriam Toews

19. “Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?” - Samuel Johnson

20. “All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own. ” - Monique Truong

21. “What wine goes with Captain Crunch?” - George Carlin

22. “My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.” - Charles Bukowski

23. “I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.” - Rachel Hawkins

24. “it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!” - Kenny Chesney

25. “I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.” - William Shakespeare

26. “Wine enters through the mouth,Love, the eyes.I raise the glass to my mouth,I look at you,I sigh.” - William Butler Yeats

27. “How very like you, Puck.” Ash’s voice came from a great distance, and the room started to spin. “Offer them a taste of faery wine, and act surprised when they’re consumed by it.”That struck me as hilarious, and I broke into hysterical giggles. And once I began, I couldn’t stop. I laughed until I was gasping for breath, tears streaming down my face. My feet itched and my skin crawled. I needed to move, to do something. I tried standing up, wanting to spin and dance, but the room tilted violently and I fell, still shrieking with laughter.Somebody caught me, scooping me off my feet and into their arms. I smelled frost and winter, and heard an exasperated sigh from somewhere above my head.“What are you doing, Ash?” I heard someone ask. A familiar voice, though I couldn’t think of his name, or why he sounded so suspicious.“I’m taking her back to her room.” The person above me sounded wonderfully calm and deep. I sighed and settled into his arms. “She’ll have to sleep off the effects of the fruit. We’ll likely be here another day because of your idiocy.”The other voice said something garbled and unintelligible. I was suddenly too sleepy and light-headed to care. Relaxing against the mysterious person’s chest, I fell into a heady sleep.” - Julie Kagawa

28. “Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.” - Will Self

29. “If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.” - Victoria Finlay

30. “As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life's hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine.” - Joe L. Wheeler

31. “She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.” - Haruki Murakami

32. “his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine” - E.E. Cummings

33. “Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow.” - Omar Khayyám

34. “He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there.“‘How about my present?’ she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing.“Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!“No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use. Not this evening, I’m afraid.“All right, Dora, don’t you worry. You’ll get your two quid all right. We aren’t paying by results.“He made a clumsy gesture. ‘Here, give us that bottle. That bottle off the dressing-table.’“Dora brought it. Ah, that’s better. That at least doesn’t fail.” - George Orwell

35. “Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6)” - Jay Rayner

36. “White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.” - James Joyce

37. “If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.” - Scott Lynch

38. “But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.” - Donald Miller

39. “This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.” - Walter Moers

40. “When you're corked...you're corked!” - Cheryl Nielsen

41. “One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.” - J. Robert Moskin

42. “Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.” - Basil Bunting

43. “Когато отпиваше тъмната течност, мъжът разбираше, че жаждата на жената до него е попила много сол, затова и виното го хващаше.” - Radostina A. Angelova

44. “Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.” - Francis Bacon

45. “Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)” - Roman Payne

46. “Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there's always red wine.” - Rachael Bermingham

47. “Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a moment you might imagine you’ve been mysteriously wafted to the French countryside, but no, this is the East End of Long Island, the most exciting new wine region in North America. You’ve reached your destination, but your journey of discovery has barely begun” - Jane Taylor Starwood

48. “One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.” - Victor Hugo

49. “What is blood but the wine of life?” - Vera Nazarian

50. “If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.” - Sandra Byrd