Wine Quotes

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

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

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

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.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

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

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

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.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

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.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.