As years go by, language evolves and takes on different meanings — like when you overhear your niece speaking a different tongue on Snapchat. While it’s debatable whether or not speaking in memes and emojis is truly language taking itself to the next level, we can all agree that wine lovers have a language all their own.
Pour
To The Average Person: Verb meaning to flow rapidly in a steady stream (especially of a liquid).
To The Wine Lover: A unit of measure that references how much wine is in their glass. There are two kinds of pours: good and bad. While the unit is subjective, every wine-lover can judge a pour from a mile away. Waiters beware.
Glass
To The Average Person: A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda, lime, and sometimes other ingredients and cooling rapidly.
To The Wine Lover: A container used for holding wine, also a unit of measure — generally to keep track of consumption over time. When it comes to the size of the wine glass, bigger is better.
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Pop
To The Average Person: To make a light explosive sound.
To The Wine Lover: A sound worthy of a ringtone. The moment when the cork is finally released from the bottle containing the vino.
Label
To The Average Person: A small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, or similar material attached to an object that provides information about it.
To The Wine Lover: The only time it’s really okay to judge by appearance.
Bottle
To The Average Person: A container, typically made of glass or plastic and with a narrow neck, used for storing liquids.
To The Wine Lover: The one accessory that goes with every wine lover’s getup and is constantly stocked in the cabinets.
Dry
To The Average Person: Free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.
To The Wine Lover: A wine that simply isn’t sweet. #StopSugarBombs2K16
Foil
To The Average Person: Metal hammered or rolled into a thin flexible sheet, used chiefly for covering or wrapping food.
To The Wine Lover: The first barrier of cracking open that favorite bottle of wine. Can easily be removed by pulling off the cap or by trimming it with a knife. It’s sharp edges are also known to pierce the skin when under the influence of a few heavy pours.
Corkscrew
To The Average Person: A thing with a spiral shape or movement.
To The Wine Lover: The key to the wine kingdom. A tool that is in every junk drawer, wine cellar, purse, and pocket of #WineSquad members across the globe.
Box
To The Average Person: A container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid.
To The Wine Lover: A long-term companion that supplies them with vino for around four to six weeks. Often mistreated by removing its pouch and being passed around at fraternity parties.
Pairing
To The Average Person: An arrangement or match resulting from organizing or forming people or things into pairs.
To The Wine Lover: A match made in heaven between wine and something else. Pairings can be food based, experience based, or even characteristically based. Prime example includes eating fried chicken with a ridiculously expensive bottle of Champagne.
White
To The Average Person: The color of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of most wavelengths of visible light; the opposite of black.
To The Wine Lover: One of the major groups of wine. Varietals include, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Riesling, and more. Commonly associated with warm afternoons and the Real Housewives’ weapon of choice.
Bubbly
To The Average Person: To contain bubbles.
To The Wine Lover: Sparkling wine. AKA a reason to celebrate the smallest things in life for the hell of it.
Red
To The Average Person: A color at the end of the spectrum next to orange and opposite violet, ex. blood, fire, or rubies.
To The Wine Lover: One of the major groups of wine. Varietals include Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Pinot Noir, and more. Commonly associated with juicy steaks and their mother getting a little too loud after dinner.
Pink
To The Average Person: A color intermediate between red and white, ex. coral or salmon.
To The Wine Lover: More than a wine; a lifestyle. Examples include Rosé, White Zinfandel, and Pink Moscato—but we’d rather not talk about those last two. Commonly associated with yachts, brunch, and brunch on a yacht in the heat of summer.
Stain
To The Average Person: A colored patch or dirty mark that is difficult to remove.
To The Wine Lover: Hell on earth. The remnants of a hand gesture gone too far. A spot on the rug that will forever haunt them for days to come.
Porch
To The Average Person: A covered shelter protruding in front of the entrance to a building.
To The Wine Lover: Where friends come together to get low-key wasted and talk major shit about their neighbors. Don’t even get them started on that damn PTA bake sale or Becky’s 17 year-old son who drives way too fast down the street.
Two-Buck-Chuck
To The Average Person: A wine that is low in price.
To The Wine Lover: A mistake that everyone has made and will make again. A great deal on the surface that leads to an ordeal the next morning. It really is hard to say no when a case is $30.
Headache
To The Average Person: A continuous pain in the head.
To The Wine Lover: Usually a sign of dehydration from consuming too much wine, a headache is also a reminder of every stupid thing they did the night before with their head in the grape-filled-clouds. Damn that Two-Buck-Chuck.
Brunch
To The Average Person: A late morning meal eaten instead of breakfast and lunch.
To The Wine Lover: A Sunday ritual taken to the extreme even though it’s just a reason to meet up with friends at 11 AM for wine and slightly overpriced (BUT TO DIE FOR) waffles.
Oak
To The Average Person: A tree that bears acorns as fruit, and typically has lobed deciduous leaves.
To The Wine Lover: The process of aging wine in oak barrels that gives it a smoky or vanilla flavor, however it’s mostly used as a topic to start WWIII at your dinner table. Before they know it, their crazy Aunt Susan will be dropping butter-bombs on your unoaked parade.
Wine
To The Average Person: An alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice.
To The Wine Lover: The one drink they can always count on to relieve the stress from obnoxious neighborhood children and that try-hard Ben from work who is stealing all of their spotlight.
Published: May 12, 2016
I leave you more than 90 Phrases about wine , Its flavor and the sensations that you have when taking this millenary drink.
Have you ever wondered since when we drank wine? The oldest vestiges allow us to know, approximately, the date in which the human began to transform the grape into wine. Experts point out that it was towards the year 5400 BC. Since its appearance, wine has been intimately linked to the destiny of mankind.
Both the sages of antiquity and the most outstanding figures of the modern world have known the goodness and the dangers of wine. Here we leave a selection of thoughts that invite us to taste this unique drink.
1 — His lips drink water, but his heart drinks wine. — E.E. Cummings
2 — Give me books, French wine, fruit, good weather and some music that sounds out in the open by someone I know. — John Keats
3 — Or give me more wine or leave me alone. Rumi
4 — Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things in the world that has achieved the greatest perfection. — Ernest Hemingway
5 — I love everything that is old: old friends, old times, old customs, old books and old wines. — Oliver Goldsmith
6 — Beer is made by men, wine is made by God. — Martin Luther
7 — Wine is the healthiest and most hygienic of beverages. — Luis Pasteur
8 — Which came well with Captain Crunch? — George Carlin
9 — Let us have wine and women, joy and laughter, sermons and mineralized water the next day. — George Gordon Byron
10 — I love on a table, when you speak, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. — Pablo Neruda
11 — There is some truth in wine. — Pliny the Elder
12 — If we drink wine, we find dreams that pounce upon us from the impending night. — D.H. Lawrence
13 — I pray that you fall in love with me, because I am more false than the vows made in wine. — William Shakespeare
14 — This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it causes a man to confuse words with thoughts. — Samuel Johnson
15 — Wine enters through the mouth, the love of the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you and I sigh. — W.B. Yeats
16 — Wine is like the incarnation: it is divine and human. — Paul Tillich
17 — Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon
18 — Wine makes everything possible. — George R.R. Martin
19 — Without bread and wine, love is hungry. — Latin Proverb
20 — Wine can be a better teacher than ink and jokes are often better than books. — Stephen Fry
21 — To put the wine in our mouth is to savor a drop of the river of human history. -Clifton Fadiman
22 — A great wine does wonders and is in itself a marvel. — Edward Steinberg
23 — Always carry a corkscrew and the wine will come. — Basil Bunting
24 — Age is just a number. It is totally irrelevant unless, of course, it is a bottle of wine. — Joan Collins
25 — The best use of bad wine is to remove poor relations. — French proverb
26 — Good wine ruins the pocket; Bad wine ruin the stomach. — Spanish proverb
27 — God made the water alone, but the man made the wine. — Victor Hugo
28 — Wine rejoices man’s heart and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29 — Wine is a peephole in a man. — Alceo
30 — It is better to hide ignorance, but it is difficult to do it when we relax with wine.»- Heraclitus
31 — What matters if youth gives love and roses, old age leaves us friends and wine. — Tomás Moro
32 — With bread and wine you can walk your way. — Spanish proverb
33 — Wine gives value and makes men more apt for passion. — Ovid
34 — I have lived with temperance, I duplicate the doctor’s recommendation of a glass and a half of wine a day and even the triplet with a friend. — Thomas Jefferson
35 — Quickly bring me a glass of wine, so that I may refresh my mind and say something intelligent. — Aristophanes
36 — Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. — Robert Fripp
37 — In the water you can see the face itself; But in wine, one contemplates the heart of another. — French proverb
38 — The wine, the real milk of the old man. — Thomas Jefferson
39 — When there is a lot of wine, sadness and worry raise the flight. — Ovid
40 — Wine is a living liquid that contains no preservatives. Their life cycle includes youth, maturity, old age and death. When treated with reasonable respect, sick and dies. Julia Child
41 — Wine is poetry in a bottle. — Clifton Fadiman
42 — What despicable rascal stole the cork from my lunch? — W.C. Fields
43 — Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of wine. — Anonymous
44 — Wine was created with the man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, it is a balm for his good health. — Andrew Sharp
45 — When a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength. — Homer
46 — Wine, only a sip will bathe the fallen spirits in a pleasure that goes beyond the happiness of dreams. Be wise and enjoy. — John Milton
47 — What is better than sitting at the table at the end of the day and drinking wine with friends, or substitutes of friends? — James Joyce
48 — When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be more satisfied with himself. — Plato
49 — I like to cook with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I’m cooking. Julia Child
50 — When a friend is invited to dinner, he is offered the best wine. When you invite two, the second best will suffice. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
51 — Where there is no wine there is no love. — Euripides
52 — I made a wine with raisins, so that I would not have to wait for it to age. — Steven Wright
53 — Commitments are made for relationships, not for wine. — Sir Robert Scott Caywood
54 — Keep the bottle in the light; You will see that your dreams are always at the bottom of the bottle. — Rob Hutchison
55 — Pain can be relieved by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. — Saint Thomas of Aquino
56 — Wine makes a good meal a symphony. — Fernande Garvin
57 — Wine is sure proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. — Benjamin Franklin
58 — A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Luis Pasteur
59 — A bottle of wine is a good company. — Ernest Hemingway
60 — A glass of good wine is a gentle creature, it reconciles the poor mortality with itself. That’s something few things can do. — Sir Walter Scott
61 — Wine is the answer of the earth to the sun. — Margaret Fuller
62 — A fruit is a vegetable with good appearance and money. In addition, if the fruit is left to spoil, it turns into wine, something that brussels sprouts will never do. — PJ O’Rourke
63 — Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine. — Karl Marx
64 — Fish, in good taste, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. — Polish Proverb
65 — The wine suddenly blossoms the friendship. — John Gay
66 — I’m like old wine. They do not take me out often, but I am very well preserved. — Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
67 — The language is wine on the lips. — Virginia Woolf
68 — Wine comforts the sad, revives the old man, inspires the young, allows the tired to forget his fatigue. — Lord Byron
69 — Accept what life offers you and try to drink from each cup. All wines must be tested; Some should only be tasted, but there are others that you should drink completely. — Paulo Coelho
70 — One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters. But with what? With wine, with poetry or with virtue, as you prefer. But get drunk. — Charles Baudelaire
71 — I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. — W.C. Fields
72 — It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine, it’s summer! — Kenny Chesney
73 — I must say in advance that I have never been in a basement in my entire life. In fact, I see no reason why no one should enter a basement unless it is a wine cellar. — Rachel Hawkins
74 — The age is best seen in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. — Francis Bacon
75 — There are thousands of wines that can take our mind. Do not think that all ecstasy is the same. — Jalaluddin Rumi
76 — Drink freely the wines that life offers you and do not worry about how much is spilled. — Marty Rubin
77 — The worst gift they gave me was when I came out of rehab for Christmas: a bottle of wine. It was delicious. — Craig Ferguson
78 — A bottle of wine leads us to be shared; I have never met a miserable wine lover. — Clifton Fadiman
79 — He knew that Hop-Frog did not like wine, so he pushed the poor cripple almost madly. Madness is not a comforting feeling. — Edgar Allan Poe
80 — If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed as I told you. — Sandra Byrd
I would not have minded going to school if they’d taught me really important things like the best way to have good sex or how to recognize the best wine. But for some reason they were determined to teach me algebra. — Ben Mitchell
«I never think of the cops’ wives; Its beauty drives me crazy like wine. — Kyril Bonfiglioli
«Lord, I did not tell you how many glasses of wine he took, why should I count how many cups of tea I have taken?» — Samuel Johnson
84 — The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. — Marty Rubin
85 — Life is too short to drink cheap wine. — Cliff Hakim
86 — I need coffee to help change the things I can and come to help me accept things I can not change. — Tanya Masse
87 — A wise man does not make a trail of gunpowder in a brazier. Instead, pour a cup of wine
88 — Wine turns a wise man into a fool, and a fool into a wise man. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
89 — A murder and a glass of wine: invaluable. — Casey Quinn
90 — You are not old, you are like wine, improvements over time. — Haileigh Horton
91 — I’m beginning to feel the need for a glass of wine to make myself stronger and able to withstand this conversation. — Naomi Novik
92 — It is not the wine that makes us drunk, but the one who brings it and fills the goblets. — M.F. Moonzajer
93 The sun is my wine. — Marty Rubin.
Over the last 300 years people have pontificated about wine. From famous artists and politicians to anonymous writings that capture the meaning of wine, here are some of the top funny wine quotes from as early as 1200 to current day. Salut!
Funny Wine Quotes
“In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
― Martin Luther, circa 1500s
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“Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.”
― Anonymous
“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
― W.C. Fields, circa 1930’s
“It takes a lot of good beer to make great wine”
― Brian O’Donnell, Winemaker of Belle Pente, 2013
“Champagne is appropriate for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.”
― Madeline Puckette, 2010
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
― Rumi, circa 1200’s
“The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.”
― Benjamin Franklin, circa 1700s
“What wine goes with Captain Crunch?”
― George Carlin
“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”
― Anonymous
“She gets to keep the chalet and the Rolls, I want the Montrachet.”
― Forbes Magazine, May 6, 1996
“My only regret in life is that I didn’t drink enough Champagne.”
― Robert Noecker
“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn’t know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.”
― Basil Fawlty, “Fawlty Towers”
“Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”
― Joan Collins
“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
“Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
― Pope John XXIII
“Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.”
― Alexander Fleming
“A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.”
― Kathy Mattea
“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”
― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
― Louis Pasteur
“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, circa 1850s
“Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.”
― Leon Adams, The Commonsense Book of Wine
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Wine attracts clever sayings and memorable quotes from various people, some more famous than others. Politicians, writers, poets, philosophers, artists or wine enthusiasts, they all use wine quotes to share the true meaning of wine. Here are some of my favorite wine quotes & wine sayings.
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• “When life throws you lemons, have a glass of wine.” – Wine Ponder
HUMOROUS WINE QUOTES
• “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” ― Joan Collins / PICTURE IT
• “A glass of wine is good for your health… The leftover in the bottle is good for your morale.” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “La canon, il faut comprendre aussi que c’est pas seulement du pinard, mais que c’est de l’amitié. (A glass of wine, one must also understand that it’s not just wine, it’s friendship.)” – Louis de Funès (French actor & comedian) / PICTURE IT
• “A friend of wine is a friend of mine!” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “Pour savoir qu’un verre de vin est de trop, encore faut-il l’avoir bu. (To know when a glass of wine is too much, one must drink it.)” – Olivier de Kersauson de Pennendreff (French sailer)
• “All you need is love… And a bottle of wine!” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “Wine fuels the desire and enhances the performance.” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “Wine flies when you’re having fun!” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “I don’t like whiny and cheesy people, but I do like wine and cheese people!” – Anonymous
• “Seven days without wine makes one weak.” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “Reality is just an illusion that occurs due to lack of wine.” – Anonymous
• “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” – W. C. Fields / PICTURE IT
• “Less whine – More wine” – Anonymous / SWAG IT OUT!
• “I’ve never owned a vineyard, but I’m pretty sure I’ve drank an entire one by now.” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “It doesn’t matter if the glass is half empty or half full. There is clearly room for more wine.” – Anonymous
• “I drink wine because I don’t like to keep things bottled up.” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “If you have to ask if it’s too early to drink wine, you’re an amateur and we can’t be friends.” – Anonymous
• “This may be the wine talking but I love wine!” – Anonymous / SWAG IT OUT!
• “Who is this –moderation– people are telling me to drink with?!” – Anonymous
• “There comes a time in the day when no matter what the question is, the answer is always wine.” – Anonymous
• “Gluten free, dairy free, fat free – I love this Champagne diet!” – Anonymous
• “Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.” – Anonymous
• “I tried cooking with wine. Didn’t go so well. After 5 glasses, I forgot why I was even in the kitchen.” – Anonymous
• “I’m a wine enthusiast. The more wine I drink, the more enthusiastic I get!” – Anonymous
• “Some people say laughter is the best medicine, others think that wine is the way to go. I take both.” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
• “I drink coffee because I need it, and wine because I deserve it.” – Anonymous
• “WARNING! The consumption of wine might cause you to think you can sing.” – Anonymous / PICTURE IT
TRADITIONAL WINE QUOTES
• “La vérité est une bulle de Champagne, elle remonte toujours à la surface. – The truth is a bubble of Champagne, it always comes up to the surface.” ― Gilles Martin-Chauffier (French journalist) / PICTURE IT
• “Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin mais goûte des secrets. – He who knows how to savor will no longer drink wine but rather taste secrets.” ― Salvador Dali / PICTURE IT
• “Le vin rend l’oeil plus clair et l’oreille plus fine. – Wine makes the sight clearer and the sound crisper.” ― Charles Baudelaire / PICTURE IT
• “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” ― Pope John XXIII / PICTURE IT
• “Le vin est semblable à l’homme : on ne saura jamais jusqu’à quel point on peut l’estimer et le mépriser, l’aimer et le haïr, ni de combien d’action sublimes ou de forfaits monstrueux il est capable. Ne soyons donc pas plus cruels envers lui qu’envers nous-mêmes, et traitons-le comme notre égal. – Wine is similar to men : we will never know how much we can respect or despise it, love it or hate it, nor how many noble feats or monstrous crimes it is capable of. Let’s not be more cruel towards it than we are of us, and treat it to our equal.” – Charles Baudelaire (French poet and art critic, excerpt from his book “Du Vin Et Du Hachisch”)
• “I will drink milk when cows eat grape.” – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French painter) / PICTURE IT
• “One man’s moderation is another man’s bacchanal.” – Katie Kelly Bell (freelance writer & editor)
• “Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” – Mark Twain / PICTURE IT
• “Nothing represents the idea of convivial sharing so clearly as wine.” – Paul Lukacs (excerpt from his book “Inventing Wine”) / PICTURE IT
• “Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you’ve got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.” Hester Browne (author, freelance writer & journalist) / PICTURE IT
• “The sun had already set behind the mountains, and the sky had been drained of color. The trellises of sauvignon blanc flowed down the hill in even rows toward the valley floor. Whatever I was looking for, it wasn’t outside. As far as I could tell, the grapes were minding their own business.” ― Frederick Weisel (storyteller & novelist)
• “We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!” – Edith Wharton (Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer)
• “Wine – A feeling of relaxation when consumed moderately, an aching hangover when otherwise.” – Paul Lukacs (writing about the inebriating power of wine in his book “Inventing Wine”) / PICTURE IT
• “The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.” ― Benjamin Franklin, circa 1700s
• “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.” – Salvador Dali / PICTURE IT
• “I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” ― Oliver Goldsmith (Irish novelist, playwright and poet – The Vicar of Wakefield) / PICTURE IT
• “It’s a smile. It’s a kiss. It’s a sip of wine. It’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney / PICTURE IT
• “I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.” ― Pablo Neruda (Chilean poet-diplomat and politician, legally know as Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)
• “Wine is earth’s answer to the sun.” – Margaret Fuller (American journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate)
• “Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “A regional match is almost always your best match.” – Steve Jones
• “In victory, you deserve Champagne; in defeat, you need it.” – Napoleon Bonaparte (French emperor)
• “Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.” – André Simon
• “I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.” – Rose Kennedy on her 100th birthday
• “Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.” – Napoleon Bonaparte (French emperor)
• “A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.” – Georg Riedel
• “Compromises are for relationships, not wine.” – Sir Robert Scott Caywood
• “Good wine is a necessity of life for me.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.” – Napoleon Bonaparte (French emperor)
• “Whichever glass you chose, may it be more full than empty.” – Anonymous
• “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” – Joan Collins
• “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “God made only water, but man made wine.” – Victor Hugo (French poet & novelist)
• “A meal without wine is called breakfast.” – Anonymous
• “Love the wine you’re with.” – Anonymous / SWAG IT OUT!
“If you can’t be with the wine you love, love the wine you’re with.”
• “Wine is poetry in a bottle.” – Cliffon Fadiman
• “Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends!” – Old British toast
• “Remember, gentlemen, it’s not just France we are fighting for, it’s Champagne!” – Winston Churchill
• “Your lips are like wine and I want to get drunk.” – William Shakespeare / PICTURE IT
• “Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” – William Shakespeare
• “Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.” – William Shakespeare / PICTURE IT
• “You can’t buy happiness but you can buy wine, and that’s kind of the same thing.” – Anonymous
• “The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
• “Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity.” – Jean-Claude Carrière (French screenplay writer)
• “I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.” – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French novelist and performer)
• “A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” – Louis Pasteur
• “Le vin est le breuvage le plus sain et le plus hygiénique qui soit.” (Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.) ― Louis Pasteur / PICTURE IT
• “Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.” – Karl Marx
• “Bonne cuisine et bon vin, c’est le paradis sur terre.” (Good food and good wine, this is heaven on earth.) – Henry IV (Le Bon Roi) King of France from 1589 to 1610
• “Wine is more than a beverage, it’s a lifestyle.” – Anonymous
• “Wine is sunlight held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei (Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher)
• “Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Nurture the land, and return what you take.” – Donald Hess (Founder of The Hess Collection)
• “Champagne… Le vin des rois, le roi des vins.” (Champagne… The wine of kings, the king of wines.) – Guy de Maupassant / PICTURE IT
• “Nothing is better for the soil than the farmer’s footprints” – Anonymous
• “Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.” – Madame de Pompadour (Member of the French court & official chief mistress of Louis XV)
• “There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.” – Bette Davis / PICTURE IT
• “Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.” – James Howell (English Renaissance Writer)
WINERIES & WINEMAKERS WINE QUOTES
• “If you don’t have consistency, you can’t win over the hearts of wine lovers.” – Joe Wagner (Winemaker and creator of Belle Glos and Meiomi) – See Meiomi Wine Story
• “One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and – one talks about it.” – Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII (circa 1870) / PICTURE IT
• “I only drink champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am, otherwise I never touch it – unless I am thirsty.” – Madame Emily (Lily) Bollinger from Bollinger Champagnes France / PICTURE IT
• “There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.” – Robert Parker
• “There’s something about being able to literally consume a work of art – then to divide all that pleasure of it – because it’s a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it’s an extraordinary experience.” – Robert Parker
• “Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It is the essence of civilization and the art of living.” – Robert Mondavi / PICTURE IT
• “My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.” – Robert Mondavi
• “Whatever you do, pour yourself into it.” – Robert Mondavi
• “A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.” – Robert Mondavi
• “Indeed enjoying fine wine at the family table, surrounded by your loved ones and friends, was not just joy – it was one of the highest forms of the art of living.” – Robert Mondavi
• “Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art.” – Robert Mondavi
• “There are hundreds of decisions that go into making a bottle of wine and it all begins in the vineyard, with the land. One of the most basic and essential ingredients in growing a great grape is starting with healthy soils.” – Chateau Montelena
• “Wherever it is in the world, the soil is the basis of all wines.” – Melville Vineyards & Winery (Sta. Rita Hills A.V.A.)
• “Wine is bottled poetry.” – Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish novelist and poet)
• “Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it’s our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you’d like to have dinner with.” – Jill Shalvis (American Writer / Novelist)
OLD WORLD WINE QUOTES
• When asked what wine he found most pleasant to drink, Diogenes replied: “That for which other people pay … What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.” – Diogenes Laërtius, Greek philosopher & Biographer / PICTURE IT
• “Where there is no wine there is no love.” – Euripides, tragedian of classical Athens / PICTURE IT
• “When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.” – Plato, philosopher and mathematician (Classical Greece) / PICTURE IT
• “Wine fills the heart with courage.” – Plato, philosopher and mathematician (Classical Greece) / PICTURE IT
• “In vino veritas est, in aqua sanitas. (In wine there is truth, in water there is health.)” – Pliny the Elder
• Wine was once said to have purifying qualities, both for the body and for the soul.
“When a man drinks wine, from him all ill vanishes, from you gods in the same way.” Fragmented uniform text dated back from the Hittite Empire
• “Truth comes out in Wine” – Pliny the Elder / PICTURE IT
• “Let us celebrate with wine and sweet words.” – Titus Maccius Plautus
• “Come, boy, you who serve out the old Falernian,
fill up stronger cups for me,
as the law of Postumia, mistress of the revels, ordains,
Postumia more tipsy than the tipsy grape.
But water, begone, away with you, water,
destruction of wine, and take up abode
with scrupulous folk. This is the pure Thyonian god.” – Gaius Valerius Catullus (Latin poet of the Roman Republic)
As far as I know, the above text is the exact translation to the original poem. Another version of this poem exists and it reads like this:
“Serving-boy, fill for me stronger cups of old Falernian,
since Postumia, the mistress’s, laws demand it,
she who’s juicier than the juicy grape.
But you water, fatal to wine, away with you:
far off, wherever, be off to the strict.
This wine is Bacchus’s own.”
• “Do not get drunk often, lest you go mad.” – Old Egyptian proverb used as a warning against excessive wine consumption
OTHER WINE QUOTES
Yes, I have a few of my own wine quotes ; ) Really doesn’t matter that much but I sure hope they become popular wine quotes before I’m dead! lol
• “The divergence of religions, cultures and opinions takes us apart, while the spiritual powers of wine unite us all.” – Wine Ponder / PICTURE IT
• “Good wine makes for good neighbors.” – Wine Ponder / PICTURE IT
• “An empty wine bottle is filled with happy memories.” – Wine Ponder
• “Wine is only as good as the people with whom it is being shared.” – Wine Ponder
• “My favorite wine-pairing experience is wine and friends.” – Wine Ponder
• “Wine always tastes better when shared with the people you love.” – Wine Ponder
• “Wine is a shared Experience.” – Wine Ponder
• “A good day starts with a cup of coffee and ends with a glass of wine.” – Wine Ponder
• “When life throws you lemons, have a glass of wine.” – Wine Ponder
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Talk to a somm or vitner, or especially a “cork dork,” and their sentences will be sprinkled with slangy descriptors. To them, wines can be “silky” or “foxy,” “lacey” or “flabby,” “chewy” and “crunchy,” smelling “floral” or even like “cat’s pee.”
Plonk
Plonk is a non-specific and derogatory term used primarily in Commonwealth English for cheap, low-quality wine.
What is a lover of wine called?
Definition of oenophile
: a lover or connoisseur of wine.
What is another name for rosé wine?
Find another word for rose-wine. In this page you can discover 3 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for rose-wine, like: blush-wine, pink-wine and rose.
What does whine mean in slang?
to utter a low, usually nasal, complaining cry or sound, as from uneasiness, discontent, peevishness, etc.: The puppies were whining from hunger. to snivel or complain in a peevish, self-pitying way: He is always whining about his problems.
What is a Flonk?
: to fail especially in an examination or course. transitive verb. 1 : to give a failing grade to. 2 : to get a failing grade or result in.
What’s a wine taster called?
A sommelier is a wine waiter or steward; a trained and knowledgeable professional providing the service of wines, usually in a restaurant setting.
What is a Vinophile?
An oenophile is someone who loves and appreciates wine. Oinos is Greek for ‘wine’ and -phile means ‘loving. ‘ There are also a small number of wine lovers who refer to themselves as vinophiles, using the Latin term vino, which also means ‘wine.
What’s another name for a wine taster?
A sommelier is the name for a wine expert. That is how the word has been historically used. More often than not, though, the word sommelier is used to describe those certified by the Court of Master Sommeliers and some other wine educational organizations.
What to call a person who always complains?
complainer Add to list Share. Definitions of complainer. a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining. synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner.
What is the meaning of weepers?
one that weeps
Definition of weeper
1a : one that weeps. b : a professional mourner. 2 : a small statue of a figure in mourning on a funeral monument. 3 : a badge of mourning worn especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. 4 weepers plural : long and flowing side-whiskers.
What does like a bolt of lightning mean?
extremely quickly or very suddenly and unexpectedly.
What do you mean by Flanked?
1a : to be situated at the side of especially : to be situated on both sides of a road flanked with linden trees. b : to place something on each side of. 2 : to protect a flank of. 3 : to attack or threaten the flank of (as a body of troops)
What is a tea sommelier?
Tea sommeliers are people who—like wine sommeliers—are trained in the taste, terroir, history, and pairing knowledge of tea. Much like our friends the wine sommelier, they can recommend how to better prepare and consume tea, can create tasting menus, and have knowledge of the steeped leaf that runs the gamut.
How do you say wine expert?
A sommelier (/ˈsɒməljeɪ/ or /sʌməlˈjeɪ/ or /sɒˈmɛlijeɪ/; French pronunciation: [sɔməlje]), or wine steward, is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service as well as wine and food pairing.
What is an alcohol expert called?
A beer sommelier, also called a cicerone, is a trained professional, working in the hospitality and alcoholic beverage industry, who specializes in the service and knowledge of beer.
What’s another name for wine connoisseur?
oenophile
a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
How do you whine while squatting?
Essentially, you’ll be whining your hips as slow or as fast as you can and then adding a squat up and down. For this move, you will start where you’re comfortable in a squat and then go down as low as you can go.
What is wine dance?
The term ‘whining’ refers to a provocative dance that usually involves a woman gyrating and grinding with/without a man to dancehall music, often occurring in clubs in the Afro-Caribbean community around the world.
What do Jamaicans say a lot?
These are the top Jamaican sayings and phrases to use when you visit Jamaica:
- ‘Weh Yuh Ah Seh’ The literal translation of this Jamaican saying is, “What are you saying?”.
- ‘Boonoonoonoos’
- ‘Small Up Yuhself’
- ‘Wah Gwaan’
- ‘Irie’
- ‘Mi Deh Yah, Yuh Know’
- ‘Weh Yuh Deh Pon’
- ‘Ya Mon’
What is catching a wine?
The dance involves a rotating movement of the neck (“wine” refers to winding, or gyration.) The dancer can also move their legs like a bird, while simultaneously rotating their wrists, neck, and posterior. Sometimes more advanced dancers will include splits in their Dutty Wine.