My Favourite Wine Quotes

Wine is sunlight, held together by water
-- Galileo Galilei

Life is too short to drink the same wine
-- Me

When I talk to someone who claims to know a lot of wine, I'm always skeptical. The first rule I learned about wine and I think is still true today is that humility is paramount when it comes to understanding anything.
-- Robert Bohr

Wines exist for food.  Without the context of food, wine is a eunuch, a sterile experience which soon acquires distorted features.
-- Matt Kramer

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by water drinkers.
--Cratinius

If you think about it too much you can kill it. The brain is a pleasure killer. You don’t need to be a gynaecologist to make love.
-- Michel Chapoutier (in Jay McInerney's A Hedonist in the Cellar)