Oenology Quotes

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

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.

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

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

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.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

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 bottled poetry, he thinks.

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

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.

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

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

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)

Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.

I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.

I don't know anything about the wine world at all.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

In wine, there's truth.

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

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.

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

We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.