Vintage Wine Quotes

As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005.

You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.

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

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

I'm a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux '82 with a meal or to unwind.

I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.

Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.