Top 147 Wines Quotes & Sayings

There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

I love wines, except when I'm dieting.

Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.

There are many wines that taste great, but do not drink well

I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be a problem if the wines sold for under $20, many are in fact $75-$150. That's appalling.

Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.

Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away.

Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

The sparkling wines from Ridgeview Estate [...] are superb and will forever put to rest the notion that England is not capable of making good wine.

What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar.

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.

Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.

The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.

A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our wines are sustainably farmed, carry the story of my family in every glass and are simply the most satisfying of all my personal endeavors.

I like to call my wines 'anytime wines,' You just want to sit and open up a bottle and watch 'The Blacklist' on a Monday night? Open it up, and it's very easy. It's very approachable.

As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifying but that can also provide great satisfaction over several years.

What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

Drinking isn't tops on my agenda. In fact, I hate champagne... and all white wines, for that matter.

If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.

Italian wines don't have to be expensive to be good. It is absolutely ridiculous that people feel that have to spend a fortune.

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!

I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?

Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life.

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

Although I generally avoid the cloyingly sweet wines, I have used them for poaching fruit.

There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably expensive (they're made in tiny quantities from ancient vines), they are huge, rich and concentrated, and represent some of planet Earth's most compelling wines.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

I don't drink coffee. I like nice wines with dinner.

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

I like California wine, I really like wines from Washington state. I love wines from Spain and Italy. I don't know about French wines at all.

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

My favorite wines are Zinfandels.

Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.