French Wine Quotes

"Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night."
~Charles Baudelaire

"I do not drink more than a sponge."
~Francois Rabelais

"Never did a great man hate good wine."
~Francois Rabelais

"Wine is the divine juice of September."
~ Voltaire

"Wine is the intellectual part of a meal, meats are merely the material part."
~ Alexandre Dumas

"Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's."
~ Montaigne

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)

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

"Wine, the most delightful of drinks, whether we owe it to Noah, who planted the wine, or to Bacchus, who pressed the juice from the grape, goes back to the childhood of the world."
~ Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Wine, the most pleasant of drinks, whether we owe it to Noah who planted the vine, or whether it is due to Bacchus, who squeezed the juice out of the grape, dates from the infancy of the world.
~ Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Burgundy makes you think off silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them. Think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them.
~ Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin