« When one knows how to taste, one no longer drinks a wine, one tastes its secrets. »
Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989)
Painter, sculptor, engraver, screenwriter, writer …
« There is more philosophy in a bottle of wine than in any book. »
Louis Pasteur ( 1822 – 1895)
Biologist, Chemist, Microbiologist, Scientist
« Come my brothers, quickly, I drink stars! »
Dom Pérignon (1639 – 1715)
Inventor of Champagne (according to legend)
« Wine, when it is truly wine, reveals the light of matter to arouse that of man. It comes reveal our light part and that is the real drunkenness. »
Bruno Quenioux
Sommelier, writer, wine merchant …
« Glasses of wine, which would give me to look like winning, while I was losing my means, in front of your divine gaze. I would like to lose you in the silence, if your lips could bite my mouth, or in the wine you know, in the gold of its red vapor. »
Georgio
Rapper
« German wine is distinguished from vinegar by the label. »
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)
American writer, essayist and humorist
« France is in fermentation; whether it will give vinegar or wine, we do not yet know. »
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
German philosopher, writer and physicist
« Wine is the intellectual part of a meal. Meats and vegetables are only the material part. »
Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870)
Writer
« As a teenager, I met a fiery prince, impetuous, traitor like all great seducers: jurançon. »
« I entered the world of wine without any professional training other than a certain greedy for good bottles. »
Colette (1873 – 1954)
French intellectual woman, mime, actress, journalist
« I will drink milk on the day the cows eat grapes. »
Jean Gabin (1904 – 1976)
Actor
« The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. »
Jim Harrison (1937 – 2016)
Writer, poet
« If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible. »
« A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow human beings. »
Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867)
Poet
