Top 464 Wine Quotes

Nicole and I have always wanted to be winemakers, but we didn’t think we would be able to do that until our 50s. But when our friends in Napa came to us and said, ‘We really want to do a wine line with you,’ how do you say no to that?

Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I’m the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.

I am the last person on the dance floor at a wedding, I am the person that awkwardly hangs around the edge and says no unless they’ve had a few glasses of wine.

Originally developed in Germany in the 18th Century, ice wine is made from grapes that have been left on the vines until deep winter when the fruits, frozen by ice, contain more concentrated sugar. Only then are they are harvested, sometimes at night.

I love a good book and a glass of wine. It’s like heaven.

I don’t like nouvelle cuisine, too small bits. I like to have a nice wine, nice pasta, tomatoes.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, ‘What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?’

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person’s e-mail and every single person’s Twitter @ reply.

Vin brule is a version of mulled wine enjoyed in Piemonte, in northwestern Italy. It’s a perfect choice for holiday entertaining because you can double or even triple the recipe and leave it over very low heat, ladling it out as your guests come in from the cold.

I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

I always love being in the company of women. It’s all about good conversation and great wine.

When I can, I always like coming to Italy to have some nice wine.

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

I don’t drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.

It’s all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.

But to have to have the opportunity to travel to all of these countries, drink some nice wine, see the other side of the culture of these countries I’ve been to, it’s nice.

One of the things that I’m really proud of is that I have really good timing. It’s very easy for me to see what’s coming up and it’s no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media – none at all.

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don’t really socialize with the other actors.

The fashion industry isn’t merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn’t wearing ridiculously tight pants.

But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don’t function well in jobs that don’t have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world.

I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

I’m happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.

I don’t drink occasionally. I don’t drink on the holidays. I don’t drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.

An excellent wine, someone’s best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.

I had to give up a lot of foods that I’m accustomed to eating: dairy products, beer, wine, spicy food.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

For the record, I’ve never taken a bung in my life. I might have enjoyed a meal or a bottle of wine on an agent or two but that is it. I was earning £1.5m a year, so I didn’t need a little bit extra from an agent. It would have been madness.

The fun of cooking is the fun of communicating with people, even if it’s just two people. As you’re cooking, you’re talking, you’re having a glass of wine. It’s wonderful; it’s an experience. Once you get into cooking, it becomes something that you really look forward to doing.

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn’t anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that’s a good run.

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

I’m a fine wine: I just get better with age. Actually, I’m like the Benjamin Button of the Combine. The older I get, the younger I look and feel.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

‘Almost’ is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, ‘almost’ Bordeaux.

I love the Sonoma wine community. It’s like Pixar – nothing competitive, only supportive. They’re always rooting for you.

I definitely remember doing ‘The Alamo’ with John Wayne and Lawrence Harvey and Linda Cristal. We’d work six days a week, and then John Wayne would invite us down to a little place in Texas called Del Rio, and we would break bread and have some wine and tell stories.

I don’t know anything about the wine world at all.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Truth comes out in wine.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

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 would say 95% of the time, because you just can’t remember your lines if you’re drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.

When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, French fries, and mashed potatoes. Unable to cook, I relied on people taking me out.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

I’d learned some things. I knew you weren’t supposed to hold a good wine at the top – the paper bag falls off.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Wine is connected to abundance.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists – that’s fine. But no service or hospitality? That’s going too far.

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I’ve always liked sparkling wine. Rose, too.