Wine Quotes for Enthusiasts and Connoisseurs

Why is there an increasing interest in wine quotes? Vino was essential in facilitating dialogue in ancient Greece. It continued to hold the same importance over the centuries.

It became part of social settings where reasoned discussions were at the core of the social gathering. Whether it was politics, philosophy, or any other topic, it became an integral part of most such settings. It has always had a unique place in history – for the rich, the poor, the royal, and the commonplace – everyone!

So, if you’re of age and enjoy a glass (or two), pour a glass as you peruse this exquisite collection that gets better with age.

Quotes on Wine

Here are some of the most famous insights on the juice of grapes. Sometimes called “the grape” or by vintage, this drink has fascinated folks from around the world for a very long time. It’s made traditional from grapes, but berries and even dandelions can be a content source.

Funny Wine Quotes

Beer is made by men, wine by God.
Martin Luther

I make vino disappear; what’s your superpower?
Unknown

Vino…because no great story started with someone eating a salad.
Unknown

Seven days without vino makes one weak.
Unknown

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it – they’re the ones falling down the most.
Jay Leno

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Best Wine Quotes

Drink wine: it isn’t good to keep things bottled up.
Unknown

It takes a lot of good beer to make great wine.
Brian O’Donnell

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy wine and that’s kind of the same thing.
Unknown

My only regret in life is that I didn’t drink enough Champagne.
Robert Noecker

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
Benjamin Franklin

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
Nigella Lawson

They say a glass is good for you. So two glasses must be better?
Unknown

Good Wine Quotes

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.
Julia Child

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur

One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and – one talks about it.
King Edward VII

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
Kathy Mattea

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself, I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson

Wine can be considered with good reason as the most healthful and hygienic of all beverages.
Louis Pasteur

Like human beings, a wine’s taste is going to depend a great deal on its origins and its upbringing.
Linda Johnson-Bell

Reflections on Wine

Wine is poetry in a bottle.
Clifton Fadiman

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wine makes all things possible.
George R.R. Martin

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
Rumi

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.
Michael Broadbent

Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity.
Jean-Claude Carrière

Famous Wine Quotes

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.
Marty Rubin

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
Charles Kingsley

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
William Shakespeare

For when the wine is in, the wit it out.
Thomas Beacon

In wine, there’s truth.
Pliny the Elder

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

Notable Quotations on Wine

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Benjamin Franklin

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
Karl Marx

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.
Charles Morgan

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.
Paulo Coelho

it’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!
Kenny Chesney

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather, and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
John Keats

Short Wine Quotes

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus

Artists and poets still find life’s meaning in a glass of wine.
Joy Sterling

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.
Len Evans, wine lover

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

I like on the table
when we’re speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.
Pablo Neruda

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
Alexander Fleming

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
Ernest Hemingway

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am not old but mellow, like good wine.
Stephen Phillips

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
Gary Vaynerchuk

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

Compromises are for relationships, not wine.
Sir Robert Scott Caywood

Did you know that women are better at wine tasting than men? It’s all about smelling and women have a better sense of smell. Read more Interesting Vino Facts.

Vino Expressions

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin (Our Editor’s Pick for the best quotation.)

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous Huxley

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.
Richard Brautigan

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Thomas Jefferson

Great Word Pairings

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Ernest Hemingway

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.
Horace

One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
Charles Baudelaire

Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s the warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It’s the essence of civilization and the art of living.
Robert Mondavi

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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Wedlock’s like wine – not properly judged of till the second glass.
Ernest Jarrold

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is an author and founder of Greeting Card Poet.