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Wine Quotes

My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.

– Joe Bastianich

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

– Jonathan Swift

You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.

– Jean Chatzky

Wine pricing is an art – like painting.

– Joe Bastianich

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

– Jane Seymour

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

– Ivana Trump

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it – they’re the ones falling down the most.

– Jay Leno

I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran’s place – the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.

– Ian McKeever

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

– Anthony Trollope

Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

– Joan Collins

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

All four elements were happening in equal measure – the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.

– Charlie Trotter

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

– Clifton Fadiman

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I’m really feeling intimidated, I’ll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I’ll pick a year that’s missing and ask for that one.

– Alton Brown

You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don’t drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day – that’s what I’m down to. I drink wine – you know, I’m normal. But I do eat well.

– Cristina Saralegui

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate – treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn’t be sustainable for me, and that’s what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

– Alanis Morissette

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

– Alain Ducasse

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

– Aeschylus

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

– Babe Ruth

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

– Colin Powell

Hmmm… cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking… I do a good braised short ribs with cabernet, though. We’re big red wine drinkers here. All that research showing that it’s good for you takes the guilt away.

– Alafair Burke

I don’t really go out that much, if I’m honest. I’m quite a recluse. If I had my way, I’d probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.

– Amber Le Bon

I’ll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don’t look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don’t dwell on it and beat myself up – I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.

– Alison Sweeney

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

– Charles Baudelaire

The world of wine is more creative than the world of cooking.

– Alain Ducasse

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

– Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

– Aldous Huxley

When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called ‘Surfing the Menu,’ and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.

– Curtis Stone

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

– Alcaeus

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

– Amy Smart

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