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60 Brilliant Wine Quotes That’ll Suit Your Taste Buds

60 Brilliant Wine Quotes That’ll Suit Your Taste Buds

I’m sure you know a thing or two about the benefits of drinking wine.

It greatly enhances your mood, wakes up your senses, makes your food taste better, and more than any other beverage, wine can invoke a vast range of memories and emotions.

But did you know that by consuming wine in moderate dosages, you have a lower mortality rate than consumers of other alcoholic beverages, even lower than that of non-drinkers?

Yes, according to a study, wine makes you live longer and if that’s not the reason to love it, I don’t know what is!

Need I say more?

Here are the best wine quotes I could find online to inspire you to enjoy every sip, share some with those you care for, and live a long, happy life!

10 Greatest Wine Quotes

1. “My only regret in life is that I didn’t drink more wine.” — Ernest Hemingway

wine and grapes image representing the greatest wine quote

2. “Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.” — Jose Andres

3. “A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” — Louis Pasteur

4. “To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.” — Clifton Fadiman

5. “Wine rejoices the heart of man, and joy is the mother of all virtues.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wine rejoices the heart of man, and joy is the mother of all virtues

6. “Wine is, perhaps, the closest thing the planet has to an elixir of life.” — Thom Elkjer

7. “Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s the 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

8. “If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.” — Clifton Fadiman

9. “Wine is bottled poetry.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “The wine-cup is the little silver well, where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.” — William Shakespeare

wine bottle, glass, and grapes image representing the best wine quote

Inspirational Quotes About Wine

1. “Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, and makes weariness forget his toil.” — Lord Byron

a woman wining and dining image inspirational wine drinking quote

2. “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” — Paulo Coelho

3. “Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.” — Benjamin Franklin

4. “Wine is a passport to the world.” — Thom Ekjor

5. “Men are like wine — some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” — Pope John XXIII

Men are like wine — some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age

6. “A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.” — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

7. “Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory — but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.” — Napoleon

8. “Enjoying fine food and wine at the family table, surrounded by your loved ones and friends, is not just a joy — it’s one of the highest forms of living.” — Robert Mondavi

9. “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

10. “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” — Benjamin Franklin

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance

Fine Wine Quotes

1. “Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.” — Michael Broadbent

cheering glasses image representing classy wine quote

2. “Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.” — Andre Simon

3. “Life is too short to drink bad wine.” — Unknown

4. “People who want you in their lives, respect you whether you are grapes or fine wine.” — Sanita Belgrave

5. “These are the best companions for an intelligent woman: a good book and a good glass of wine.” — Augusto Branco

These are the best companions for an intelligent woman a good book and a good glass of wine

6. “Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.” — Italian proverb

7. “What many of us experience in a glass of wine isn’t wine per se, but another part of ourselves, a sensual and free part of ourselves that seldom comes out because the ‘real’ world is in constant opposition to it.” ― Lebo Grand

8. “A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

9. “A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, “A man can live without art, but not without culture.” — Unknown

10. “Wisdom is like a fermented wine. It’s only appreciated when shared.” — Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

Wisdom is like a fermented wine. It’s only appreciated when shared

Sassy Wine Glass Quote

1. “Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin

2. “Wine and friends are a great blend.” — Ernest Hemingway

3. “More important than the food pairing is the person with whom you drink the wine.” — Christian Moueix

4. “All worries are less with wine.” — Amit Kalantri

5. “Happiness is a well-stocked wine cabinet and a closet full of shoes.” — Unknown 

Happiness is a well-stocked wine cabinet and a closet full of shoes

6. “Great wine works wonders and is itself one.” — Edward Steinberg

7. “Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.” — Alexander Fleming

8. “You only live once — so drink great wine.” — Unknown

9. “With wine and hope, anything is possible.” — Spanish Proverb

10. “Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill.” — Marty Rubin

wine pouring image representing a sassy wine tasting quote

Wine Love Quotes

1. “Love, like wine, gets better with time.” — Unknown

Love, like wine, gets better with time

2. “Love is the wine as old as time, which quenches our lonely longing.” — John Mark Green

3. “The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.” — Marty Rubin

4. “Where there is no wine there is no love.” — Euripides

5. “I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I’m in love and when I’m not.” — Coco Chanel

a man with a glass image representing love quote about drinking wine

6. “A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.” — Clifton Fadiman

7. “Compromises are for relationships, not wine.” — Sir Robert Scott Caywood

8. “Wine enters through the mouth, love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.” — William Butler Yeats

9. “Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.” — Julio Iglesias

10. “It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.” — Ovid

It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

Funny Wine Quotes

1. “I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” — W.C. Fields

I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food

2. “Wine! Because no great story started with someone eating a salad.” — Unknown

3. “Wine is the answer. I just don’t remember the question.” — Unknown

4. “I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” — Frank Sinatra

5. “Wine flies when you’re having fun.” — Unknown

Wine flies when you’re having fun

6. “Husbands are like wine; they take a long time to mature.” — Letters to Juliet

7. “Uh-oh, out of alcohol. Better call wine-one-one.” — Unknown

8. “Wine is to women as duct tape is to men, it fixes everything!” — Comic Strip Mama

9. “I only drink Champagne when I’m happy, and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it — unless I’m thirsty.” — Lily Bollinger

10. “I drink to make other people a lot more interesting.” — Ernest Hemmingway

I drink to make other people a lot more interesting

See also: 320 Cool & Catchy Drinking Captions For Instagram

Final Thoughts

I hope this collection of wine quotes did a good job of capturing why we love it so much and why we should treat ourselves to a glass of wine every day.

If you’re with me, let’s drink to that!

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60 Brilliant Wine Quotes That'll Suit Your Taste Buds