He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Martin Luther, 1777

Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.
Anon French Proverb

The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
Paul S. Winalski

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
Diogenes the Cynic

The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.
French proverb

Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach
Spanish saying

A little saint best fits a little shrine,
A little prop best fits a little vine,
As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
‘A Ternary of Littles’

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one’s present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason.
Latin saying

Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away.
Wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars.
Wycherly
The Country Life

When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don’t respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out….
Kingsley Amis
Everyday Drinking