Philosophers, thinkers, scientists, writers, poets, painters, film directors, designers... Throughout the history of wine, strongly linked to the history of human beings, we find this product as a source of inspiration countless times. Some of the most influential personalities in the construction of the framework of Western thought throughout history have expressed their impressions of wine in words. They are words that elevate this food to the category of the mystical. Wine phrases that help us to understand the importance it has come to have today. Here are some of our favourites.
1. “Algunos seres humanos se suavizan con la edad, como el vino; pero otros se agrian, como el vinagre.“ H. C. Dowland.
2. “Existe en la esfera terrestre un gentío innumerable e innominado cuyo sueño no podría dormir los pesares. El vino escribe para ellos cantos y poemas.” Charles Baudelaire.
3. “El vino lava nuestras inquietudes, enjuaga el alma hasta el fondo y asegura la curación de la tristeza.” Lucio Anneo Séneca.
4. “El vino, mientras más se envejece, más calor tiene: al contrario de nuestra naturaleza, que mientras más vive, más se va enfriando.” Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio.
5. “El vino siembra poesía en los corazones.” Dante Alighieri.
6. “In vino veritas.” Traducción: “En el vino (está) la verdad”. Plinio “el viejo”.
7. “Un buen vino es como una buena película: dura un instante y te deja en la boca un sabor a gloria; es nuevo en cada sorbo y, como ocurre con las películas, nace y renace en cada saboreador.” Federico Fellini.
8. “Un vaso de vino en el momento oportuno vale más que todas las riquezas de la tierra.”Gustav Mahler.
9. “Vino y pan movieron ejércitos.” Juan Abellán.
10. “Las gentes del Mediterráneo empezaron a emerger del barbarismo cuando aprendieron a cultivar el olivo y la vid.” Tucídides.
11. "Language is wine on the lips." Virginia Woolf.
12. "What is better than to sit down at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or a substitute for friends?" James Joyce.
13. "There is more philosophy and wisdom in a bottle of wine than in all the books." Louis Pasteur.
14. "Be careful about trusting someone who doesn't like wine." Karl Marx.
15. "Give wine for wine and bread for bread, and everyone will understand you".
16. "Wine is bottled poetry." Robert Louis Stevenson.
17. "Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and talk is often better than books." Stephen Fry.
18. "Good wine brings the pilgrim back to life".
19. “Me basta/ con el vino dorado y viejo / una manta con olor a invierno / diecisiete almendras nuevas / y tus manos…” Beatriz Mazliah, El vino y la poesía.
20. “El vino cuando se bebe con inspiración sincera solo puede compararse al beso de una doncella“. Nicanor Parra
21. " Wine is the light of the sun, united by water". Galileo Galilei.
22. "He who knows how to taste does not drink too much wine, but enjoys its soft secrets". Salvador Dalí.
23. "Wine is the milk of the aged". Plato.
24. "The best wine is not necessarily the most expensive, but the one that is shared". George Brassens.
25. "A wine is ideal when one regrets having finished the bottle". Roberto Verino.
26. "Where there is no wine there is no love". Euripides.
27. “El que al mundo vino y no toma vino, ¿a qué vino?”Bernardo Piuma.
28. "I would like to be all wine and drink myself" .Federico García Lorca.
29. "The wine opens the doors with astonishment and in the shelter of the months it overturns its body of soaked red wings". Pablo Neruda.
30. "Wine makes life easier and more bearable, with less stress and more tolerance" .Benjamin Franklin.
31. "Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old authors to read. Francis Bacon.
32. "While penicillin cures men, wine makes them happy". Sir Alexander Fleming.
33. "God made nothing but water, but man made wine". Victor Hugo.
34. " There is more history than geography in a bottle of wine" .J. Kressman.
35. " If lovers of wine and love go to hell...empty must be paradise." Omar Khayyam.
36. " Spain, the beautiful country of wine and song". Goethe, Faust.
37. " Food is the material part of nourishment, but wine is the spiritual part of our nourishment" .Alexandre Dumas.
38. " Wine moves the spring, / Joy grows like a plant. Walls fall, rocks fall, / abysses close, / song is born." Pablo Neruda, Ode to Wine.
39. " [...]to preserve health and to recover it if it is lost, it is advisable to extend the use of drinking wine in everything and in all ways, as it is, in moderation, the best vehicle of food and the most effective medicine [...]" Don Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas.
40. " Man owes it to wine that he is the only animal that drinks without thirst". Pliny the Younger.
41. " Wine, teach me the art of seeing my own history / As if it were already ashes in memory." Jorge Luis Borges.
42. " Wine consoles the sad, rejuvenates the old, inspires the young, and relieves the depressed of the burden of their cares" .Lord Byron.
43. "The wine brightens the countryside, exalts the hearts, enkindles the pupils and teaches the feet to dance". José Ortega y Gasset.
44. "The amphora always keeps the aroma of the first wine it kept". Quintus Horatius Flaccus.
45. “Un día sin vino es un día sin sol.” Frase típica de la Provenza.
46. “Un vino es la más sana e higiénica de las bebidas.” Luis Pasteur.
47. “El vino es una cosa maravillosamente apropiada para el hombre si, en tanto en la salud como en la enfermedad, se administra con tino y justa medida.”Hipócrates.
48. “Viva el buen vino, que es el gran camarada para el camino.” Pío Baroja.
49 . "With bread and wine you can walk any road".
50. "Wine is the only work of art that can be drunk". Luis Fernando Olaverri.
"The people of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive tree and the vine". Thucydides.
Wine is what has civilised the world the most. François Rabelais
There are five good reasons to drink wine: the arrival of a guest, the thirst present and to come, the good taste of the wine and no matter what other reason. Italian proverb
Good quotes and sayings 🙂 thanks for sharing them
Estoy terminando mi primer libro “De la copa a la cepa”. Es un manual basico de la vid y el vino.
I want to include phrases, sayings and quotes about wine and here I have found quite a few.
Thank you very much.
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Wine is what has civilised the world the most. François Rabelais
There are five good reasons to drink wine: the arrival of a guest, the thirst present and to come, the good taste of the wine and no matter what other reason. Italian proverb
Wine is what has civilised the world the most. François Rabelais
Congratulations a good compilation of phrases and I share with you an Egyptian proverb. In water you can see your face reflected, but in wine your best quality appears.
Falta una de Jorge Luis Bosque “Que otros en su leteo se beban un triste olvido, yo busco en ti los placeres del fervor compartido”, es muy buena.