Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It’s the essence of civilization and the art of living. -Robert Mondavi

I like on the table, / when we’re speaking, / the light of a bottle / of intelligent wine. -Pablo Neruda

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

Had I but died an hour before this chance
I had liv’d a blessed time; for, from this instant,

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens. -Thomas Jefferson

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. -Louis Pasteur

Artists and poets still find life’s meaning in a glass of wine. -Joy Sterling

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell. -William Shakespeare

Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. -Pope John XXIII

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. -Kathy Mattea