Fine Wine Quotes - Page 2

• Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Drinking, Wine, Champagne

  "Household Words: A Weekly Journal".

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• The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wise, Book, Wine

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• I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Wine, Humor

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• High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

  Mark Twain

  Wine, Water, Likes

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

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• I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

  Mario Puzo

  Drinking, Wine, Age

  "Fictional character: Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

  Maynard Amerine

  Wine, Ordinary, Fine

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• There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

  Demi Moore

  Passion, Wine, Smoking

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• The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wine, Past, Years

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• Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.

  Steve Jordan

  Wine, Get Better, Age

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• Fine worries, like fine wines, are at their best only after they have been properly mellowed.

  Dan Greenburg

  Wine, Worry, Fine

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• You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

  Lennox Lewis

  Wine, Get Better, Age

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.

  Robert Mondavi

  Art, Wine, Skills

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• Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Age

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.91, Knopf

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• Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

  Cornelia Funke

  Wine, Fine

  Cornelia Funke (2010). “Reckless”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.

  Gavin Friday

  Writing, Wine, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.

  Nick Mason

  Wine, Choices, Ferrari

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

  Charlize Theron

  Wine, Men, Fine

  Source: wwd.com

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• To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.

  Adam Richman

  Wine, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.

  Michael Jackson

  Taken, Wine, Beer

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• I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.

  Robert Mondavi

  Country, Teaching, Wine

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• I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

  Lynn Kurland

  Wine, Irony, Fine

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• Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Hurt, Drinking, Wine

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• Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Nice, Wine, Thinking

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• My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford.

  Ernest Gallo

  Brother, Wine, California

  "American wine giant Ernest Gallo dies", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

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• Being vintage like a fine wine
  Should make you proud of being old
  And being mature like a cheese
  Certainly explains the mould!
  Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Wine, Vintage

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