Vodka is the aunt of wine.
Just like literature, wine takes time to learn. Before having access to the emotion of a stunning poem or to the vigor of a captivating novel, we all had to go through a long initiation. First, we need to learn the alphabet, the sound of each letter....
For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people.
In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
Good wine praises itself.
When the wine is in, the wit is out.
Before you came, things were as they should be: the sky was the dead-end of sight, the road was just a road, wine merely wine. Now everything is like my heart, a color at the edge of blood: the grey of your absence, the color of poison, of thorns, th...
Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's...
Scientists want to search for alien signals because that's what gets them publicity. They are like Jesus Christ." "Jesus Christ?" Nambodri asked, with a faintly derogatory chuckle. "Yes. They are exactly like Jesus Christ. You know that he turned wat...
Wine lets secrets out.
Bread and wine start a banquet.
They forgive the wine but they hang the bottle.
When wine comes in, modesty leaves.
For a bad night, a mattress of wine.
Water for oxen, wine for kings.
Extol the virtue of water, but drink wine.
Where there is no wine, we need medicine.
Wine tops the list of all medicines.
Wine is water adulterated by foolish talk.
Every cask smells of the wine it contains.
