Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth. — Charles Edward Montague
When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. — Jacques Pepin
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur
Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin! — Julia Child
Short Red Wine Quotes
Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty. — Madame de Pompadour
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent
The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner. — Henny Youngman
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. — Diogenes
Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength. — Homer
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. — Horace
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. — Ovid
If i don't have red, I use blue.
Drinking Red Wine Quotes
This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place. — Anthony Bourdain
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad
My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't. — Paul Henderson
When someone is unkind keep a smile on your face. When you follow the Red road and keep you joy You take away their power.
Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying. — Demetri Martin
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired. — Brigitte Bardot
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill
Give a man a bottle of wine, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to make wine, he'll always have lots of friends
I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories. — Jane Goodall
I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle. — John Kirwan
I drink red wine on ice to water it down. — Diane Keaton
I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again. — Sally Jessy Raphael
Glass Of Red Wine Quotes
A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled. — Alexis Lichine
I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas. — Erin Daniels
We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light. — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
In wine, there's truth.
Depends on the evening. A good red wine is nice in cold weather. A Claret or a Rioja. I've got a good gin we make from damson plums. And you can't beat a glass of champagne every now and again. — Alan Titchmarsh
I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands. — Graeme McDowell
Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday. — Melanie Laurent
Coffee keeps me busy until it is acceptable to drink wine
I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy. — Winston Churchill
The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations. — Robert Motherwell
Some people say,'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me. — Shahrukh Khan
The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Red Wine Love Quotes
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. — Amy Lowell
I Love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I love that red wine is good for you. Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like, Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have. — Dom Irrera
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. — James Joyce
Ive always loved my red wine, and when Im not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so its one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out. — Amanda Donohoe
White Wine Quotes
I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200. — Hans Rosling
Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies. — Bette Davis
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. — John Masefield
Spilling a glass of wine is the adult equivalent of letting of go a balloon.
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies. — Bette Davis
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not. — Lord Byron
It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it? — Amy Winehouse
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world
Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white. — Kevin Zraly
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat. — Oliver Reed
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine? — Charlie Trotter
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color. — Charles Bowden
Good Wine Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. — Thomas Aquinas
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — M. F. K. Fisher
There is no losing in jiu jitsu. You either win or you learn.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. — Washington Irving
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods. — Maimonides
Wine is bottled poetry
Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something. — Maya Angelou
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. — Denise Richards
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! — Hilaire Belloc
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle. — Joe Bob Briggs
Great Wine Quotes
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. — Francis of Assisi
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney
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
Wine is to women as duct tape is to men...it fixes everything.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! — Johann Sebastian Bach
The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W. C. Fields
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.' — Gerald Asher
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? — Cardinal Richelieu
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
God made only water, but man made wine. — Victor Hugo
Wine Bottle Quotes
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire
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
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. — Kevin J. Anderson
New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles. — Heinz Guderian
The man shows a pig leg; the woman shows a bottle of wine. — Vietnamese Proverbs
They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type. — Erik Spiekermann
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. — Frank Muir
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
You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one. — Len Evans
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be — Nina Simone
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe. — John Hurt
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. — Bob Blumer
Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake. — Leon Adams
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. — J. F. Powers
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. — William Shakespeare
I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly. — Fiorello H. La Guardia
Drinking Wine Quotes
Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. — Omar Khayyam
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Loren
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine. — Karl Marx
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. — Francis Bacon
Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host's Canary wine? — John Keats
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
The rabbi drinks the wine and asks the others to be happy. — Yiddish Proverbs
What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine? — Jami Attenberg
When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine. —
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. — Omar Khayyam
Grains and beans are negative aspects of the Mediterranean Diet that are countered by the large amounts of olive-oil polyphenols, large amounts of red-wine polyphenols, and fish. — Steven Gundry
Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time. — Madi Diaz
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. — Jim Harrison
And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine. — Oscar Wilde
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach. — Jack Kerouac
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering. — Hilda Doolittle
The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. — Cecilia Bartoli
Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine. — Gary Vaynerchuk
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. — George R. R. Martin
I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes. — Rod Stewart
If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini. — Eric Stoltz
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine. — Francis Thompson
Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well. — Vincent Van Gogh
I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese. — Craig Kilborn
It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane. — Kate Moss
Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine. — Peter Jackson
Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we? — Jimmy Fallon
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour? — Kristin Davis
I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either. — Mick Hucknall
Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place. — M. F. K. Fisher
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen. — Bam Margera
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water. — Aimee Bender
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