Clifton Fadiman Quotes

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

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.

Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.

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.

I read about wine every day.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?