Wine Quote of the Day

An ever-expanding collection of our favourite sayings about our favourite drink.

December 26, 2006

What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?

Larson E Whipsnade (WC Fields) in You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

December 20, 2006

Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

December 15, 2006

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Kingsley Amis

December 12, 2006

Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Dorothy Parker

December 8, 2006

I only drink Champagne on two occasions: when I am in love and when I am not.

Coco Chanel

December 7, 2006

Drink wine and you will sleep well.
Sleep and you will not sin.
Avoid sin and you will be saved.
Ergo, drink wine and be saved.

Unknown

December 5, 2006

A first class cabernet is like an investment banker - a polished gentlemen in a three piece suit. But Syrah is a cowboy in a tuxedo.

John Alban

December 4, 2006

In victory you deserve champagne, in defeat you need it.

Napoleon

December 3, 2006

Life – that’s to work with wine.

Unknown

December 2,2006

The wine you drink is the wine you deserve.

Emile Peynaud from The Taste of Wine

December 1, 2006

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

Andre Simon