Bordeaux Quotes

• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Silly, Food, Wine

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• I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

  John Cleese

  Wine, Differences, Vineyards

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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• I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Pinot Noir, Fans, Passionate

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

  Horace

  Wine, Light, Soul

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• Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

  Richard Thaler

  Money, Ties, Gold

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• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Vineyards, World

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

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• The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Wine, Bottles

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• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Tolerance, Vines

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

  Horace

  Wine, Mean, Light

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• Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

  Edna Ferber

  Wine, Men, Europe

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.58, Booklassic

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• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Flower, Wine

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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• Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Wine, Vineyards

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  World, Cabernet, Ifs

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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Golf, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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• Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Would Be, Generations, Care

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• Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

  Pat Conroy

  Baseball, Wine, Numbers

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• Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Giving Up, Writing, Wine

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Firsts, Professors, Late

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