Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that wull.
Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599)
Epithalamion, 250

After-dinner talk
Across the walnuts and the wine.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Miller’s Daughter, 31

The air is like a draught of wine.
The undertaker cleans his sign,
The Hull express goes off the line,
When it’s raspberry time in Runcorn.
Noel Coward (1899-1973)

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
Thomas Becon

“When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.” — Alexis Lichine

“I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.” — Attributed to Fiorello La Guardia, former mayor of New York City

“There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.” — Thomas Conklin, Wine: A Primer

“I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink; that’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for.” — W. C. Fields in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art. — Robert Mondavi

“For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red.”