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“God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!”

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Walter Scott

Walter Scott, born on August 15, 1771, and died on September 21, 1832, was a renowned British baronet. He is best known for his extensive literary works, particularly his historical novels and poetry. more

“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.”

“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.”

Language Wine Labels Pleasant Tall Bottles Slender Vinegar Beverages

Book:A Tramp Abroad

Source: A Tramp Abroad

“We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time”

Knows Needs Humans May Littles Lasts Fronts Aspect Wine Analysis Fascinating Comparison Hobbies Intimidated Snob

Author:Alec Waugh

“But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman. This always begins with a rejection, done gracefully or rudely according to the woman's disposition, and in the end she will grant herself only to someone, who aspires her soul as well as her body. She will belong to the one, who knows how to uncover her with the utmost delicacy.”

Knows Wells Different Soul Ends Done Body Know How Taken Drink Wine Mysterious Rejection Grants Aspire Disposition Delicacy Fickle

Author:Luigi Veronelli

“At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.”

Enough Happens Morning Four Wine Extraordinary Drunk Clock Extraordinary Things

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.”

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Author:Maynard James Keenan

“In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.”

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Author:Mario Andretti

“...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.”

Want Giving Heart I Can Two Three My Heart Wine Fruit Grapes Artisans

Author:John Bennett Ramsey

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