The Bard hardly remained silent on the subject of wine. This section includes several quotes from his contemporaries as well. It’s worth working through the language to see what these masters had to say about wine.

With a wine stopper like this one you may think of the Bard while enjoying your wine. The item on the right is not a mini wine barrel. It’s a place to store your wine stopper when it’s not in a wine bottle.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink, I feel shame! Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this wine, they might be out of work, and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver?” -Jack Handey

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes. -Horace

[Making wine] is like having children; you love them all, but boy, are they different. -Bunny Finkelstein

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing. -Ernest Hemingway

Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil. -Lord Byron

Compromises are for relationships, not wine. -Sir Robert Scott Caywood

Like human beings, a wine’s taste is going to depend a great deal on its origins and its upbringing. -Linda Johnson-Bell