Wine is bottled poetry.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

When wine is drunk by a drunkard, that wine is revenged on the drinker.

Leonardo Da Vinci Notebooks, 1281

In great attemps it is glorious even to fail

They seized on that word and with my blessing made a beautiful cabernet sauvignon called Harumph. So if you’re disappointed when you don’t get a “harrumph” out of your audience, you can always buy a great bottle of Harumph wine instead.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

"When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die," he mumbled, through mashed lips. "But I'd like a flagon of wine."

Est fou, bien sûr, qui se refuse aux délices du vin, quand on peut dresser haut celui que je tiens là, palper un sein, caresser des deux mains une prairie offerte ! L'or danse et l'on oublie ses maux !

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

A bottle of wine was good company.

"Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad."

"Drink," says the White Logic. "The Greeks believed that the gods gave them wine so that they might forget the miserableness of existence."

Champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it.