Church Street Wine Cellars

"Only the man who has watched the growth of his wines, has sampled them at their various ages, has experimented with bottling and importing various vintages, has suffered bitter disapointments and enjoyed wildly happy surprises, can understand why the love of the vine is conterminous with civilization" - Evelyn Waugh - "Laying Down a Wine Cellar" - 1937

"I drink Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad.

Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company

I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it when I'm not hungry

and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it -

Unless I'm thirsty." - Lily Bollinger

"In victory you deserve Champagne, in defeat you need it." - Napoleon I

"Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin" - Napoleon I

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" - W.C. Fields

"If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life."

- Sir Alexander Flemming (discoverer of penicillin)

"I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens." - Thomas Jefferson

"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne." - John Maynard Keynes

"Wine is light, held together by water." - Galileo

"The wine cup is the little silver well Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell."

- William Shakespeare

"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine." - Anthelme Brillat Savarin

"Wine rejoices the heart of man, and joy is the mother of all virtue." - Goethe

"What is the definition of a good wine?" It should start and end with a smile".

- William Sokolin

"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."

~ Martin Luther 1777

“Pinot Noir should be a princess, not a monster. Who would you rather eat with?”

David Lett, The Eyrie Vineyards, Oregon

“Pinot Noir is fast becoming boring, a victim of predictability and homogeneity. The new definition of ripeness has served to obscure site differences rather than emphasize them.”

- Matt Kramer, Wine Spectator, June 30, 2007

“We might consider investing in southern England where the chalk soils are similar to those in Champagne. But we need to be convinced that global warming and the pattern of climate change is permanent.” - Jean-Claude Rouzaud, Louis Roederer, Champagne

“Any hands-on winemaker who tells you that his wine is just a product is lying through his teeth… .It’s a performance. You hear the applause, or you hear the deafening silence.” - Stephen Yafa, Wines & Vines, August, 2007.

“If you rate your “best” by price, you’re an investor, not a taster. You know the price of wines but not the value of them.” - Richard Elia, Quarterly Review of Wines, Summer, 2007

"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine." - Eduardo Galeano

“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.” - Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“Bordeaux is like your wife...you know what you're going to get more or less. But Burgs, they are like your flings...you'll often get disappointed but when the right one comes along...man its better than s*x and half the thrill lies in the search.” - unattributed

"I like to call Pinot Noir the 'especially' grape variety because it seems that for any general statement or rule you make about wine, you can add the phrase 'and especially with Pinot Noir.” - Josh Jensen, Calera Wine Company

"I hang no ivie out to sell my wine;

The nectar of good wits will sell itself."

- Robert Allott (Allot),

England's Parnassus--Sonnet to the Reader

“Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.” - Francis Bacon

“In water one sees one's own face; but in wine one beholds the heart of another”

- French Proverb

“Great wine is made 105% by God and Nature ... and ...-5% by man.” - unattributed

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” - Aristophanes quotes (The greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy, 450-385 BC)

"We have to see beyond the label, the name, the vintage, the points, and the price to the wine itself and those with whom we share it, receptive not only to where it has come from but where it can take us." - unattributed

"When grapes are ripe and are harvested, first be sure that enough is kept by for the household and the owner’s people. And be sure that they are harvested fully ripe and dry, or your wine will lose its reputation!" - Cato, On Farming. 195 B.C. (P.S. ...and Carthage must be destroyed.)

"Nunc est bibendum." ("Now is the time for drinking.") - Latin poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BCE)

“Enology is the worst thing to happen to winemaking” - Eric Texier

"Wine is like sex. The more in tune you are with your wine partner, the greater your intimacy and satisfaction. Get to know the who, the where, the what, the why, the touch, and the taste. If you establish a good relationship it is likely that, perhaps unlike sex, wine will be gratifying well into your old age. Ask Michael Broadbent or Robert Mondavi." - Joel Peterson, Ravenswood

"Our love of wine is the fraternal bond that brings us together, and it is the lubricant that stimulates our conversation, but it's a polygamous relationship, that encourages and enhances our other passions." - Jay McInerney

“If you love wine, put aside the tasting notes, ratings and reviews. Pull the cork and taste the wine. It doesn't matter whether you taste raspberries, anise and roses wet with the morning dew - or you simply like what's in your glass. Just yield to the experience, and make it your own.” - unattributed

“I always thought champagne was like designer suits. It is all about what fits you (Armani vs Blass vs Brooks Bros). It is all about what style you like.” - unattributed

“Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly.” - unattributed

"Much ado about nothing. Too saucy. like a toad - ugly and venomous. A very ancient and fish-like smell. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little wine. Infirm of purpose. Thy lips rot off. It would not even go with eating the bitter bread of banishment. This wine was the most unkindest cut of all. What fools these vintners be. Something is rotten in the state of France." - William Shakespeare on French Burgundy

“Good Pinot Noir has a delicate elegance and a luscious succulence that can transport you to another place. It is not the stop-traffic beauty of bombshell Jessica Alba or thick-lipped Angelina Jolie, but more the classic elegance of Catherine Deneuve or Isabella Rossellini.” – The Prince of Pinot

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench – a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.....There's also a negative side ..."

- Hunter S. Thompson

“Kiss French, Drink Italian” - unattributed

"There is no other liquid that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history." - Clifton Fadiman

"Let us drink heartily, say crazy things to each other and have a good time!"

- Orestes, Act II, La Belle Hélène

"Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are." - Emile Peynaud

"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance" - Ben Franklin

"A mala cama, colchón de vino." (If your bed is hard use wine as a mattress)

- Spanish proverb

"Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say, are you going to drink that?" - unattributed

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Frank Sinatra

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