Wine Quotes

Quotes

Timeless maxims inspired by wine

The history of wine is rich in memorable words, from ancestral proverbs to more contemporary thoughts. These readings about wine are an endless source of inspiration. They remind us of the importance of patience, observation and respect for nature—fundamental values that we cultivate on a daily basis. Each quote chosen for this section is a nod to one of these aspects: a metaphor on vine pruning that shapes the future, a reflection on the maturation of wines that refines their character, or perhaps a quip about the mysteries of wine ageing that makes it so fascinating. A witty remark, whether amusing or profound, allows us to grasp the very essence of our passion.

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Sources

Bordeaux, une histoire de cépages — Jean-Baptiste Duquesne, Éditions BBD

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25 July 2022

Better to drink red than feel blue.

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10 May 2022

THE BEST WINE is the one you share WITH FRIENDS!

At Cazebonne, we couldn't agree more, since Entre amis is the name of one of our cuvées!

10 January 2022

I was advised to watch my alcohol consumption……Since then, I haven't taken my eyes off my glass of wine.

Just a touch of discipline.

08 January 2022

Drink wine……This is life eternal.

Omar Khayyām (1048–1131) was an immense Persian poet and scholar. He is notably renowned for his Rubaiyat, his quatrains.

By Omar Khayyam

06 January 2022

There are red blood cells and white blood cells……It seems clear to me that there must be rosé blood cells.

Logical.

By Jean Carmet

04 January 2022

There is no one who knows the secret of the future……What is needed is wine, love, and rest in abundance.

The wisdom of this great poet.

By Omar Khayyam

02 January 2022

It is quaffable……It has body, it hits the palate crisply, and it's certainly not lacking in length.

Coluche, sublime in L'aile ou la cuisse.

31 December 2021

It's Friday……Low battery.

Especially on New Year's Eve!

29 December 2021

Dear pessimist, dear optimist, whilst you were debating whether the glass was empty or full, I drank it……Thank you.

Are you more of a pessimist or an optimist?

By l'opportuniste

10 March 2021

Wine always tastes of its terroir.

Or wine should always taste of its terroir...

08 March 2021

In the battle of "Head vs Heart", it's always the liver that loses.

After all, you only live once...

06 March 2021

I COVID(EMPTY) MY GLASS

During this period of lockdown easing, we must stand together in solidarity.

04 March 2021

The sommelier is there to make people happy.

A tribute to the sommelier profession...

By Serge Dubs

02 March 2021

I am tasting wine from the five continents……It is my world tour in glasses.

In times of lockdown, rather handy...

28 February 2021

Raising an elbow is the best way never to lower your arms.

And you must never give up...

26 February 2021

You don't catch flies with vinegar

I love this quote!

24 February 2021

Did you know……Opening a bottle of wine activates 14 muscles.

We're getting our exercise in however we can at the moment...

20 February 2021

I love Bordeaux, especially in its old age; I love all honest wines, because they make one love.

At a time of Bordeaux Bashing, we’ll take it!

By Alfred de Musset

18 February 2021

Do not alienate novices from the knowledge and pleasure of wine through the use of vocabulary reserved solely for the initiated: speak simply about your wines.

This remains more relevant than ever!

By Colette

16 February 2021

Wine is the intellectual part of a meal; meat and vegetables are merely the material part.

It seems quite clear to us!

By Alexandre Dumas

14 February 2021

If wine were to disappear from human production, there would be in health and intellect a void, an absence more dreadful than all the excesses for which it is held guilty

Good heavens, what a horror!

By Charles Baudelaire

12 February 2021

Words have a true complexity with wine……Besides, all drinkers are great talkers.

Quite true!

By Bernard Pivot

10 February 2021

When it comes to wine, one must know how to put pleasure before prestige.

Well said!

By Paul Claudel

08 February 2021

I realised I had accepted that I was not immortal when I started drinking my old Bordeaux.

In a time of Bordeaux bashing, food for thought!

By Philippe Bouvard

06 February 2021

Here the sheriff is called Yquem, the Rio Bravo is the Ciron, and gold is Sauternes.

Even John Wayne loved Bordeaux!

By John Wayne

04 February 2021

After the war, two choices were open to me: finish my life as an MP, or finish it as an alcoholic……I thank God for guiding my choice so well: I am no longer an MP.

Here's to you, Churchill!

By Winston Churchill

02 February 2021

I drink to make other people more interesting

Absholutely!

By W.C. Fields

31 January 2021

A good old bottle of wine is as rare, as miraculous as an old man who isn't a fool……It happens, but you'd better not count on it too much.

It is true that an old wine...

By Roland Topor

29 January 2021

In our land, men should be born happier and more joyous than elsewhere, for I believe that happiness comes to men born where good wine is found.

If Leonardo says so!

By Léonard De Vinci

27 January 2021

I cannot understand buying wine without having tasted it beforehand……It would never occur to anyone to buy a pair of trousers without trying them on first.

Yes, may God corkscrew us!

By Pierre Desproges

25 January 2021

When travelling, I look at the wine list, to avoid traffic jams.

Good strategy! What about you, what is yours?

By Raymond Devos

23 January 2021

Which is why we should take comfort in a bottle!

02 January 2021

I followed my heart……It led me to the wine merchant.

Always listen to your heart...

31 December 2020

I wanted to drink with Moderation, but he never turned up

It's not my fault.

27 December 2020

Buy well, drink well

Fair point!

25 December 2020

Taste cannot be bought, it is lived.

One can only agree.

By Jacques Puisais

23 December 2020

There is a time and a place to taste wine……In my hand, right now.

Because wine doesn't wait...

21 December 2020

Be humble and open, you will be admitted to the feast of life.

A tribute to Jacques Puisais, who passed away a few days ago.

By Jacques Puisais

19 December 2020

A wine must have the face of the place where it was born and the guts of the person who made it

A tribute to Jacques Puisais, who passed away last week.

By Jacques Puisais

17 December 2020

Always bring good wine to a party……At worst, if the party is awful, you'll have something good to drink.

The essential advice to adopt for a successful evening.

15 December 2020

The problem with this world is that everyone else is always a few drinks behind

Classic Bogart!

By Humphrey Bogart

13 December 2020

WINE (n.): a hug concentrated in a glass

A poetic definition...

11 December 2020

I’ve just rescued some wine……It was trapped in a bottle.

Poor thing...

09 December 2020

If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen

If Bukowski says so...

By Charles Bukowski

07 December 2020

They boast about climbing Mont Blanc in a day……Me, I can down Monbazillac in two minutes.

Are you also capable of such a feat?

05 December 2020

To know the vintage and quality of a wine, one need not drink the whole cask.

How true...!

By Oscar Wilde

03 December 2020

Every empty bottle is filled with stories

So true, isn't it?

01 December 2020

French rock……is a bit like English wine.

Are you more into French wine, or English rock?

By John Lennon

29 November 2020

Drinking and eating keep body and soul together.

Unity is strength!

By Heinrich Böll

27 November 2020

Be a dear……Make yourself useful.

Love note.

25 November 2020

Some wines improve with the years……But this year will improve with wine.

Indeed...

By Ph. Geluck

22 November 2020

Of course I know how to drink responsibly……I never spill a drop.

Wine is a precious thing, let us preserve it!

20 November 2020

Weekend forecast: 99% chance of a glass of wine.

Highly reliable forecast.

18 November 2020

Take counsel in wine, but resolve with water.

It seems wiser to us...

By Benjamin Franklin

16 November 2020

There are two kinds of people in this world……those you want to share a drink with, and those who drive you to drink.

Such is the way of the world...

14 November 2020

If forging makes the blacksmith, then I’ll gladly become a winegrower!

My job? Wine taster.

13 November 2020

If they say so……A small glass of wine with dinner, the best of remedies.

12 November 2020

Good bread and good wine are the beginning of a great feast

We could not put it better ourselves!

10 November 2020

Man owes it to wine that he is the only animal that drinks without thirst.

Indeed.

By Pline l'ancien

08 November 2020

And you, do you prefer wine in magnums?

06 November 2020

The secret to enjoying a good wine: 1- Open the bottle to let it breathe 2- If you notice it isn't breathing, give it mouth-to-mouth immediately.

The secret finally revealed!

06 November 2020

Save your winegrower, order a case and drink at home

Wow! 313,107 people reached by this quote on Facebook. Goes to show, solidarity really works ;-)

04 November 2020

Save your winegrower: order a case and drink at home

In these Covid times, we need to stick together!

02 November 2020

Standing shoulder to shoulder and raising a glass……Never have these two expressions been so close in meaning.

We must stand together in such challenging times!

31 October 2020

If wine stirs emotion, the winemaker is an artist

Because drinking wine is an art in itself.

29 October 2020

Alcohol does not solve any problems……Having said that, neither does water or milk.

Indeed...

27 October 2020

- It’s incredible how wine makes you look so good……- But I haven’t been drinking.

Wine makes things so much more beautiful...

25 October 2020

Water makes you weep, wine will make you sing.

It is better to sing!

23 October 2020

Alcohol leads nowhere……Just as well, right now we can't go anywhere.

Indeed...

19 October 2020

To drink wine is to drink genius

By Charles Baudelaire

17 October 2020

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

There's nothing quite like cooking with wine!

By W. Fields

15 October 2020

It is not the wine that intoxicates, but man who intoxicates himself.

In praise of moderation.

By Proverbe chinois

13 October 2020

Your best friends don’t care if your house is clean……As long as there’s some wine left in the cellar.

Do you have friends like that?

09 October 2020

Wine doesn't ask silly questions……Wine simply understands.

Don't you agree?

07 October 2020

I'll soon be switching to winter time……Ten glasses.

The days are drawing in...

05 October 2020

What is the best wine……An opened bottle that's already been started.

And ready to driiink!

01 October 2020

METRO BOULOT VINO

Not only because it rhymes...

29 September 2020

I was advised to put water in my wine……I tasted it.

That, I cannot do.

27 September 2020

Wine not?

Good question! Let's go!

25 September 2020

A little thought for the innocent bunches of grapes, which died to produce this bottle of wine.

Thought of the day.

23 September 2020

Hell is a house without a chilled bottle of white wine.

In this heat...

21 September 2020

Every weekend, I tell myself: "Mathieu, you need to stop drinking wine!" Luckily, my name isn't Mathieu!

Resolution.

19 September 2020

The most prestigious bottles begin to exist the moment they are emptied among friends.

So true!

By Paul Bocuse

17 September 2020

Winemakers should put a little more wine in the bottle, so that there's enough for two!

Quote of the day

15 September 2020

I have never abused wine……It has always been consenting.

Freely adapted from Pierre Desproges.

13 September 2020

People who love to eat and drink are the ones with whom we spend the best moments.

Indeed...

11 September 2020

My favourite day……Friday.

Cheers!

09 September 2020

Only drink on days that start with T……Tuesday, Thursday, today, tomorrow, thaturday, thunday.

In English today, as unfortunately it doesn't work in French...

07 September 2020

A glass of wine is always a lie you tell yourself……You know full well you are going to finish the bottle.

Fair point.

05 September 2020

The Semillon grape is for the boy, Mérille is for the girl, Blanquette for the little lass, Petit pied rouge (Cot) for the little child, Bouchalès is for the bourgeois, And Oeil de tour (Ondec), prune it short, All these vines, fiddle-de-dee……Bear grapes right down to the rear.

A traditional song featuring grape variety names from Lot-et-Garonne, quoted by Marcel Lacroix in a work published in Agen in 1941. Aside from Semillon and Cot, at Cazebonne we have replanted Bouchalès and Mérille, which were once planted across Bordeaux.

03 September 2020

If you combine Wine and Dinner, you will have a Winner!

In English, this time!

01 September 2020

Do you know what a book and grapes have in common……In both cases, we delight in grape varieties.

Sweet delights..

30 August 2020

Should I have a glass of wine tonight……A) Yes B) A C) B.

Well then, since we must choose...

28 August 2020

I drink coffee because I need it, and wine because I deserve it.

One of life's little pleasures...

26 August 2020

You cannot silence someone……But you can drink wine and ignore what they say.

True wisdom...

24 August 2020

When I have a difficult decision to make, I always ask myself what Jesus would do……And I always end up finding 12 friends to go for a drink.

In moments like these, you always need a few friends...

22 August 2020

When the wine is drawn, it must be drunk, even if it is good.

Sometimes, you simply have to make an effort!

By Marcel Pagnol

20 August 2020

Wine is the milk of old men

Latin proverb

By Proverbe latin

18 August 2020

Baths, wine and Venus wear out our bodies, but baths, wine and Venus make life.

We are not Latin for nothing.

By Proverbe latin

16 August 2020

Better to drink too much good wine than a little bad wine.

Indeed.

By Georges Courteline

14 August 2020

To live, one needs wine of charming colours.

By this magnificent 12th-century poet.

By Omar Khayyam

12 August 2020

Wine, Monsieur, is France……Raising an elbow is saluting the flag.

Perfeckly, Monsieur.

By Marcus Malte

10 August 2020

At a dinner party, it is better to move from coq to vin than to jump from pillar to post.

Quite true.

By Marc Escayrol

08 August 2020

What good wine brings you here...

To my friends.

06 August 2020

- Hello, what would you like to drink……- A glass of wine, please, madam.

Schoolboy humour.

04 August 2020

A book will always be less powerful than a litre of wine to change what you think.

Bar-room banter.

By Jean-Marie Gourio

02 August 2020

The pairing of wine and cheese is proof that the palate hates solitude.

A perfect pairing, wouldn't you agree?

By Carlos Drummond de Andrade

31 July 2020

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

That certainly restores one's faith...

By Benjamin Franklin

29 July 2020

Drink……Eternal life is in this wine.

Omar Khayyam was an 11th-century Persian poet, scholar, and mathematician (present-day Iran). He wrote numerous rubaiyat (quatrains), many in tribute to wine and intoxication. A true genius of his time.

By Omar Khayyam

When I drink wine, I'm taking my medicine. It says Médoc on my bottles!

27 July 2020

I realised I was getting old the day I noticed I was spending more time chatting with pharmacists than with bistro owners

As everyone knows, wine keeps you well preserved!

By Michel Audiard

13 July 2020

Penicillin cures humans……Wine makes them happy.

To each their own role!

By Alexander Fleming

11 July 2020

A glass of wine isn't just plonk……It's also friendship.

Exactly.

By Louis de Funès

Those drinking to forget are kindly requested to pay in advance. Thank you.

09 July 2020

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09 June 2020

The simple physical act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to humanity than all the governments in the history of the planet

Hard to argue with that.

By Jim Harrison

07 June 2020

If you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools, Or make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and never breathe a word about your loss; (...) Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

In these circumstances where the weather shows us no mercy... Reading the words of Kipling.

By Rudyard Kipling

05 June 2020

One must always be drunk……To avoid feeling the horrible burden of time that breaks your shoulders, you must get drunk without cease.

Baudelaire, forever...

By Charles Baudelaire

I could probably be a morning person if coffee were a glass of wine.

03 June 2020

18 May 2020

I cannot solve all your problems, but I can help you feel better.

And that's already quite something!

By Le vin

To avoid touching your face, we recommend holding a glass of wine in each hand.

16 May 2020

10 May 2020

Wine reveals feelings.

And wisdom...

By Horace

08 May 2020

02 May 2020

10 April 2020

27 March 2020

It's all mum's fault……When I was little I grazed my knee, and she told me: WE'LL PUT SOME ALCOHOL ON IT, AND IT'LL BE FINE.

Truth always comes from the mouths of mums!

Better to be drunk than an idiot, it doesn't last as long.

25 March 2020

13 March 2020

03 March 2020

You should always have a bottle of wine chilled for special occasions……Sometimes, the special occasion is simply having a chilled bottle of wine waiting for you.

That is why you should always have a bottle chilled!

24 February 2020

Emptying a bottle of wine with someone is an understated way of expressing friendship.

Friendship and discretion.

By Jean Carmet

Vin sur vin: when I can't be bothered to score the wine I'm tasting.

22 February 2020

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22 January 2020

31 December 2019

I always drink water before sitting down at the table……To prevent people from thinking I drink wine because I am thirsty.

Drink without thirst

17 December 2019

Sometimes I have a bath, because it is difficult to drink a glass of wine in the shower.

And what about you, what is your favourite place to sip a glass of wine?

11 December 2019

Plonk should be compulsory.

Coluche, we miss you...

By Coluche

Does anyone know which page of the Bible has the recipe for turning water into wine? It's for a party this Friday.

05 December 2019

19 November 2019

Always finish what you have started……Especially when it comes to a glass of wine.

It is important to see things through!

09 November 2019

People can disappoint……Wine, never.

Who agrees?

01 November 2019

A woman's place is in the kitchen……Sitting in a comfortable chair, a glass of wine in hand, watching her darling cook for her.

Ladies, what do you think?

30 October 2019

For lack of love and fresh air, I live on friends and wine

To each their own view of things!

22 October 2019

I cannot live without Champagne……In victory, I deserve it; in defeat, I need it.

Just as true with a fine bottle of Graves!

By Napoléon Bonaparte

16 October 2019

23 August 2019

03 July 2019

28 May 2019

The secret to enjoying a good wine: 1- Open the bottle to let it breathe 2- If you notice it isn't breathing, perform mouth-to-mouth immediately.

The secret is finally revealed!

Notice to drinkers: Better to be drunk than stupid! It doesn't last as long, let it be said

28 May 2019

Penicillin cures humans, wine makes them happy.

To each their own role!

By Alexander Fleming

28 May 2019

I can't solve all your problems, but I can help you feel better.

And that's already quite something!

By Le vin

28 May 2019

You should always keep a bottle of Champagne chilled for special occasions……Sometimes, the special occasion is simply that you have a bottle of Champagne chilled.

That is why you should always keep a bottle of Champagne chilled!

Every handful of raisins is the tragic tale of a bunch of grapes that could have become wine.

28 May 2019

Good wine is a daily necessity!

Couldn't agree more!

By Thomas Jefferson

24 May 2019

Art and wine serve to bring people together

I couldn't have put it better myself! What do you think?

By Goethe

22 May 2019

Good wine is a daily necessity!

If even Jefferson said so!

By Thomas Jefferson

16 May 2019

Just looking through the robe makes you want to drink, and that is why wine is female and fine drinking is erotic.

Classic Pierre Desproges!

By Pierre Desproges

10 May 2019

Fitting flat water into a round bottle can only command respect.

Absolutely. Don't you think?

28 April 2019

Wine was created to give pleasure……It is the snobs who made everything complicated.

Do you agree?

By Saul Galvao

26 April 2019

Wine, the most delightful of drinks, whether we owe it to Noah, who planted the vine, or to Bacchus, who pressed the juice of the grape, dates from the childhood of the world...

Wine has certainly been around for a long time! :)

By Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

24 April 2019

A good wine should be treated like a good lover.

Anyone who loves good wine will agree!

By (dicton)

22 April 2019

Eat, drink, and love……The rest is not worth a penny.

Do you know of anything better?

By Lord Byron

20 April 2019

Youth is intoxication without wine

Poor youth!

By Goethe

12 April 2019

Temptation exists to be yielded to.

And if Maupassant says so...

By Guy de Maupassant

06 April 2019

Those who suffer from indigestion or become drunk know neither how to eat nor how to drink.

Caution!

By Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

04 April 2019

Spilling a glass of wine is like when we were children and our balloon floated away.

Oops!!

02 April 2019

Wine is sunlight, held captive in water.

Then poured into a glass!

By Galilée

29 March 2019

Man owes it to wine that he is the only animal to drink without thirst.

How very true!

By Pline l'Ancien

21 March 2019

I don't understand how anyone can buy wine without tasting it first……No one would dream of buying a pair of trousers without trying them on first.

What do you think?

By Pierre Desproges

19 March 2019

He who knows how to taste no longer drinks wine, but tastes secrets.

One must learn to savour!

By Salvador Dali

13 March 2019

Truth is in wine.

In vino veritas! The wisdom of the ancients...

By Pline l'ancien

I don't have a drinking problem. I'm just very thirsty.

25 February 2019

09 February 2019

Coffee keeps me going……until it's time for wine.

Are you more of a wine or coffee person?

01 February 2019

Wine is an enigma……The solution is at the bottom of the glass.

I am very good at solving enigmas...

By Benjamin Cooker

26 January 2019

I'll drink milk the day cows eat grapes

Q.E.D.

By Jean Gabin

22 January 2019

I drink on occasion, and sometimes when there is no occasion.

Cervantes was a gentleman...

By Cervantes

20 January 2019

A kitchen without a corkscrew is nothing more than a bedroom.

A brief philosophy of the corkscrew.

By Keith Floyd

14 January 2019

God made only water, but man made wine

Proof that there is strength in unity!

By Victor Hugo

Those who drink wine live less... - less sad - less depressed - less tense - less frustrated and with a healthier heart!

12 January 2019

06 December 2018

He who knows how to taste no longer drinks wine, but savours its subtle secrets.

And you? Do you know how to taste wine?

By Salvador Dali

Do you know what rhymes with Friday? Red wine!

02 November 2018

25 August 2018

Coffee keeps me going, until it's time for wine.

Is it the same for you?

21 August 2018

It doesn't matter whether the glass is half full or half empty……What matters is that there is still some left in the bottle.

Always look on the bright side of things, right?

18 August 2018

Oenological thought: To bu or not to bu?

That is the question.... we opt for the first option! What about you?

16 August 2018

Appetite comes with eating……Thirst disappears with drinking.

And in heat like this, we stay hydrated!

By François Rabelais

31 July 2018

20 July 2018

20 May 2018

30 April 2018

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