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"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water." - Galileo (1564-1642)

"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine." - Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

"The taste of a good wine is remembered long after the price is forgotten." - Hubrecht Duijker 

"Often ... wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences." - Duff Cooper

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

"Wine is Life" - Horace (65-8 B.C.)

"Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die." - Julia Child (1912-2004)

"I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." - W.C. Fields (1880-1946)

"Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages." - Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

"Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil." --- Lord Byron (1788-1824)

"Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul." - Horace (65-8 B.C.)

"Wine ... the intellectual part of the meal." --- Alexandre Dumas ( 1824-1895)

"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover." - Clifton Fadiman 

"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

"If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul." - Clifton Fadiman

Filmmaker and winemaker Francis Ford Coppola says: “The two professions are almost the same. Each depends on source material and takes a lot of time to perfect. The big difference is that today""s winemakers still worry about quality.”

“I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, ‘There are no good wines, only good bottles." - Gerald Asher