and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and...

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

There’s nothing more annoying than a man ordering wine at a bar when you’re not eating.

I adore cock and champagne together. My favourite food group.

Shimrod gave the boy a copper penny. ‘Bring me now a goblet of good tawny wine.’By a sleight of magic Shimrod augmented the acuity of his hearing, so that the whispers of two young lovers...

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill.

In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also of other potentially complex beverages such as tea, coffee, and spirits, and, by...

Wine is like the incarnation-it is both divine and human.

To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are.I...

As long as I can hear the sweet melody of your words, I need not; The angel’s secret, to be whispered in my ears As long as I can lace your silky fingers round my...

Murder and a glass of wine: priceless

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it”What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?”Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not...

Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a...

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism.

These things are wine, women and song”…”Curry’s nice too” pointed out Fat Charlie

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

What is blood but the wine of life?

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we’re given.

You’re not old: You are like wine. You get better over time.

You drink wine by the glass, and I drink wine by the trashcan. Seriously, I’ll be by the trashcan if you need me.

I had about half a bottle of red wine and it kind of took the edge off me,

Good wines are produced in small quantities. It is a matter of time and attention and picking only the best grapes. Today they get as much as they can out of the ground, and what...

When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face...

In wine, there’s truth.

I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can… and WINE to help me accept the things I can’t!

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

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

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

If my last name were Drinkfood, I’d pour you a hot cup of spaghetti. And if my last name were Eatdrink, I’d be more romantic and pour you some wine, and let you sip it...

I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

First, the best wine is where you find it. It doesn’t have to be the most expensive wine.

He’d heard of elvenblossom wine. It was known for its stultifying bouquet of fruit blossoms and the battle-axe power of its alcohol content. Only those of elven blood could stomach the sweet stuff, he’d heard,...

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.

The wine is drawn, M. le Marquis…we must drink it.′

She wasn’t my kind of woman and that’s why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you...

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...

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing… it eventempts him to blurt...

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as...

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He’s this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot...

The premise of Nossiter in ‘Mondovino’ would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously...

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...