"People who say that they can't appreciate a great wine generally haven't tasted one"
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"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"
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"Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty."
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"The air of summer was sweeter than wine."
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"Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat."
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"It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves."
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"Wine invents nothing; it only tattles."
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"In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth."
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"Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before."
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"Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration."
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"Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing."
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"The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label."
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"With a gentle pressure, our lips met. His hands slipped more firmly about me, and I held myself back, not afraid, but wanting to feel everything slowly as I leaned in, tasting the wine on him, feeling the warmth of his body pressing into mine, breathing in our scents that were mingling and changing with the warmth. My hands rose to find his hair, and I relaxed into him as the silky strands brushed through my fingers. I wanted more, and I leaned into him as our lips moved against each other."
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"By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like."
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"I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"
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"The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now. "No. Wine?"
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"He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist."
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"A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines."
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"'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'"
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"This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk."
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