Pablo Neruda Quotes

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

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

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.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Good wine needs no bush.

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave... Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.

Wine is a civilizing agent.

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

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.