“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

“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?” W.C Fields

“I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles.” Bishop of Seville

“In victory, you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it.” Napoleon

“Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.” William Shakespeare

“I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn’t know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.” John Cleese (Basil Fawlty), Fawlty Towers [“Claret” is an English term for red Bordeaux.]

“By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.” Alec Waugh

“Burgundy for Kings, Champagne for Duchesses, and claret for Gentlemen.” French Proverb

“I like Champagne, because it always tastes as though my foot’s asleep.” Art Buchwald

“When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.” Plato

“Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.” Alexander Fleming

[at his first sip of champagne] “Come quickly! I am tasting stars!” Dom Perignon

“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” Pope John XXIII

“My dear girl, there are some things that are just not done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ‘53 above the temperature of 38° Fahrenheit.” James Bond in Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger