There are many wine lovers and we come from very diverse backgrounds. A good number of celebrities are great fans and have left real pearls about this wonderful universe. Some of the phrases you are going to read are real, others are attributed, but, in any case, none of them is wasted. Here I leave you a few that I think are great, they are certainly not the only ones, but they will surely make the reader smile.
• “He who knows how to appreciate it does not drink wine, he discovers its secrets” (Salvador Dalí)
• “Wine is inspired by the cosmos, it contains the flavor of the matter of the world” (Lalou Bize-Leroy)
• “You will drink this wine (Richebourg 1952 by Romanée-Conti) on the day of my funeral, there is no need for you to be sad” (Henri Leroy). The family got their wish.
• “A good wine is like a good movie: it lasts a moment and leaves a taste of glory in your mouth; It is new with each sip and, as with movies, it is born and reborn in each taste.” (Federico Fellini).
• “A glass of wine at the right time is worth more than all the riches on earth.” (Gustav Mahler).
• “There is more philosophy and wisdom in a bottle of wine than in all books.” (Louis Pasteur).
• “I would like to be all about wine and drink myself.” (Federico García Lorca).
• “A wine is ideal when you regret having finished the bottle.” (Roberto Verino).
• “While penicillin cures men, wine makes them happy.” (Sir Alexander Fleming).
• “If lovers of wine and love go to hell, paradise must be empty.” (Omar Khayyam).
• “Food is the material part of food, but wine is the spiritual part of our food.” (Alexander Dumas).
• “Man owes wine to be the only animal that drinks without thirst.” (Pliny the Younger).
• “I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I am accompanied I consider it obligatory. I eat it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. In any other case I don’t drink it, unless I’m thirsty.” (Lily Bollinger in reference to champagne).
I’m going to close this entry with one of my own. It is neither famous nor do I think it will become famous, but I do believe in it unequivocally: “Any wine-growing area is well worth a trip: history, tradition, landscape, gastronomy and, of course, wine.”