"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

Ernest Hemingway.

 

"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste."

(From "The Sun Also Rises," Count ippipopolous to Brett)

 

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

Robert Mondavi

 

"Wine is the blood of France."

Louis Bertall, La Vigne, 1878

 

"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river history."

and

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water!"

Galileo Gallilei

 

"Where there is no wine there is no love."

Euripides

 

"Wine is life."

Petronius, Roman writer

 

"Making wine is like having children; you love them all, but boy, are they different."

Bunny Finkelstein ( co-owner of Judd’s Hill Winery)

 

"Burgundy for Kings, Champagne for Duchesses, and claret for Gentlemen."

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

 

"Wine... the intellectual part of the meal."

Alexandre Dumas, 1873

 

"If food is the body of good living, wine is it's soul."

Clifton Fadiman

 

"Wine is one thing, drunkenness another."

Robert Burton, Clergyman

 

"Good wine praises itself."

Anonymous, Arabian Proverb