“ During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began. Tom Standage
“ It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks... Ray Bradbury
“ Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. Fran Lebowitz
“ Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning. Douglas Preston
“ He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle. Richard Brautigan
“ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the cup ... at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Proverbs
“ No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey. Thomas Jefferson
“ A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine. George R.R. Martin
“ I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time. Christian Louboutin
“ I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
“ I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. Ernest Hemingway
