Craig Claiborne Quotes

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

Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

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.

Wine always inspires sociability.

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.