Wine Tasting With Friends Quotes

The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle. ~ Marvin Shanken

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history ~ Clifton Fadiman

In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind. ~ Neel Burton

Time for Wine Tasting 101.
"So here's how this works. When tasting a wine, as opposed to casual drinking, there are four basic steps you need to remember: sight, smell, taste, then spit or swallow."
Nick paused at that last part and cocked his head. "And your personal preference on the latter would be ... ?"
"Only lightweights spit."
His right eye twitched. ~ Julie James

And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed "she opened her eyes and saw Nick staring at her.
"I feel like I need a cigarette and a shower after watching that. ~ Julie James

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. ~ Ted Allen

The wine-cup is the little silver well,
Where truth, if truth there be
Doth dwell. ~ William Shakespeare

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, ~ Andrea Illy

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. ~ William Shakespeare

There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost. ~ Ann Fairbairn

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? ~ James Joyce

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine. ~ Tom Araya

Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. ~ Robert Mondavi

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. ~ John Milton

Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination. ~ Marvin Shanken

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. ~ William Shakespeare

Death is by no means separate from life ... We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation. ~ Eugene Kennedy

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and ... talking about ~ Edward VII

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? ~ Cardinal Richelieu

Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in? ~ Jennifer Rosen

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like. ~ Jonathan Cain

The common myth is that African Americans aren't well-educated about wine, but in truth, we're like everyone else. We like what we like – high or low. A $100 bottle of wine can taste as awful as a $2 bottle, and the opposite is true, as well. If you know what you like, buy it. But don't just buy it because it's expensive. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

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

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all. ~ Ivana Trump

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions. ~ George Herbert

They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type. ~ Erik Spiekermann

Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source of information than any score regarding the wine's style and personality, its quality level relative to its peers, and its relative value and aging potential. ~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The wine I produce is not for keeping. It's the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards. ~ Gerard Depardieu

God made only water, but man made wine. ~ Victor Hugo

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. ~ Kathy Mattea

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others. ~ Diogenes

It is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the virtues of a woman through a blindfold kiss. ~ Roger Scruton

Enjoy the wine, don't spill the night… ~ Talismanist Giebra

Ah, wine. Wine was my friend. Wine understood me. Wine knew that it was entirely possible to be one hundred percent happy for your sisters and also ten percent jealous, because Wine does not care about mathematics. ~ Melanie Harlow

Wine is to women as duct tape is to men, it fixes EVERYTHING! ~ Tanya Masse

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. ~ Aristophanes

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This earth eats men and women, and yet we are sent to eat the world, this place that tries to fool
us with tomorrow. Wait until tomorrow, which we outwit by enjoying only this
now. We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low
to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea,
but the sea does not get smaller! We
eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine. ~ Rumi

Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free. ~ Olivier Magny

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine? ~ Isak Dinesen

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary ... ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things. ~ Dan Aykroyd

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree. ~ Shackerley Marmion

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. ~ James Joyce

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting. ~ Frank Schoonmaker

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine. ~ Blake Mycoskie

Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL! ~ Tanya Masse

The simplest definition of a great bottle of wine is when you feel sad because the bottle is empty. ~ Tony Margiotta

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. ~ Rumi

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. ~ Horace

People should have fun with wine. A bottle should sit on your dinner table like all of the other condiments. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three. ~ Li Bai

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. ~ Adam Gopnik

He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. "Have you been drinking?" The question was more curious than accusatory. "No," Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. "I've been tasting," Bast said, emphasizing the word. "Tasting comes before drinking. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. ~ Thomas Moore

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. ~ Heraclitus

Best wines with character have abyss within. ~ Talismanist Giebra

In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also of other potentially complex beverages such as tea, coffee, and spirits, and, by extension, the flavours in food, the scents in the air, and the play of light in the world. For life is consciousness, and consciousness is life. ~ Neel Burton

The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship. ~ Jean Drapeau

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. ~ Francis Bacon

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine ... that I may for a time forget the cares of the world. ~ Hafez

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. ~ John Keats

Wine knows that having passion for life is an art itself. ~ Talismanist Giebra

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. ~ Benjamin Franklin

They have real glasses and real wine of three kinds, namely, blackthorn wine, berberris wine, and cowslip wine, ~ J.M. Barrie

When it comes to picking wine and cutting through the marketing smokes, bottom line is: two things really matter. First is how the grapes were farmed, and second is whether or not you like it. The rest is vastly BS. ~ Olivier Magny

Wine is just a conversation waiting to happen. ~ Jessica Altieri

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. ~ Walter Scott

Kale is a superfood and it's special power is tasting bad. ~ Jim Gaffigan

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. ~ John Webster

At the end of the day, it's just grape juice. No one needs anything that I make. The last thing we need is another wine on the shelf. So that just makes me grateful for the people who do enjoy it. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

When you can't handle the heady concoction of wine and women, it's time to pack up your bags and quit. ~ Anurag Shourie

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures ~ Kent Bach

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills. ~ Paula Deen

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. ~ Alexander Fleming

How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends,
friends of friends ... ~ Laurel Burch

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine. ~ Padma Lakshmi

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead ~ Salvador Dali

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

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out. ~ Robin Williams

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. ~ Jill Clayburgh

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief. ~ Akshay Kumar

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends. ~ Aristophanes

Drinking wine was not historically limited to people who could afford it. Western and European culture turned it into an elite thing. Winemakers were farmers and field workers. Everyday people. And that's who should enjoy and have access to wine. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. ~ Henry Fielding

The key to enjoying wine isn't just to guzzle a lot of expensive wine, it's to learn about wine. ~ Jen Wilkin

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

My glass of wine and I are besties. ~ Mila Kunis

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe , or start collecting model aeroplanes ~ Michel Houellebecq

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man. ~ Plato

Wine gives a man nothing ... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ~ Samuel Johnson

In every field that's been studied from wine tasting to financial investing, when it came to differentiating between top performers, experience was not the critical variable....experience and expertise do not necessarily go hand in hand. ~ Brad Stulberg

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood. ~ John Wycliffe

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out. ~ Burgess Meredith

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. ~ Judith Viorst

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. ~ Omar Khayyam

Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the noonday's warm sunshine To living lads for mirth and wine. I met you suddenly down the street, Strangers assume your phantom faces, You grin at me from daylight places, Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet Dead men down the morning street. ~ Robert Graves