Quotes

Question 1

Who said: “Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them.”

Answer 1

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Question 2

Who said: “The Wines of Bordeaux give tone to the stomach, while leaving the mouth fresh and the head clear. More than one invalid abandoned by the doctors has been seen to drink the good old wine of Bordeaux and return to health.”?

Answer 2

Comments by members of the Jury judging Bordeaux wines submitted under the new 1855 classification at the 1855 World’s Fair in Paris

Question 3

Who wrote”“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.”?p

Answer 3

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Question 4

Who wrote: “The grapes often are also very rotten, and always full of spiders. Besides that, I have been told by those of the country, that they often put salt, dung and other filthiness, in their wine to help, as they think, its purging. But, without these additions, the very sight of their treading and making their wine…walking without any scruple out of the dirt and into grapes they were treading…..were enough to set one’s stomach ever after against this sort of liquor.”?

Answer 4

–John Locke, 1679,

Observations upon the Growth and Culture of Vines and Olives

Question 5

Who wrote: “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”?

Answer 5

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), Count Mippipopolous, in The Sun Also Rises (1926).

Question 6

Who said: “WHAT IS BETTER THAN TO SIT AT THE END OF THE DAY AND DRINK WINE WITH FRIENDS, OR SUBSTITUTES FOR FRIENDS?”?

Answer 6

James Joyce

Question 7

Hvem sagde: “Tag Versailles og tilsæt Antwerpen, så får man Bordeaux”?

Answer 7

Victor Borge

Question 8

Who said: “The wine of Pontac, so revered in England, is made on a little rise of ground, lieing open most to the west. It is noe thing but pure white sand, mixed with a little gravel. One would imagin it scarce fit to beare anything… thanks to the rich English who sent orders that it was to be got for them at any price”?

Answer 8

John Locke

Question 9

Who said: “The French are so proud of their wines that they’ve given some towns the same name as a great vintage.”?

Answer 9

Oscar Wilde

Question 10

On April 10th, 1663, a young (__BLANK__) wrote in his fine diary about “A sort of French wine, called Ho Bryan that hath a good and most particular taste that I ever met with.”

Answer 10

Samuel Pepys

Question 11

Who said: ““Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.””?

Answer 11

John Keats

Question 12

Who said: “I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.”?

Answer 12

W. C. Fields

Question 13

Who said:”Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”?

Answer 13

Benjamin Franklin

Question 14

Who said: “The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.”?

Answer 14

William Shakespeare

Question 15

Who said: “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”?

Answer 15

Louis Pasteur

Question 16

Who said: “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.”?

Answer 16

Thomas Jefferson

Question 17

Who said: “One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”?

Answer 17

Charles Baudelaire

Question 18

Who said: “Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.”?

Answer 18

Lord Byron

Question 19

Who said: “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.”?

Answer 19

Ernest Hemingway

Question 20

Who said:”A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.”?

Answer 20

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 21

Who said: “Beer is made by men, wine by God!”?

Answer 21

Martin Luther

Question 22

Who said:”Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.”?

Answer 22

Horace

Question 23

Who said:”Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.”?

Answer 23

Alexander Fleming

Question 24

Who said: In wine, there’s truth.”?

Answer 24

Pliny the Elder

Question 25

Who said: “If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”?

Answer 25

D.H. Lawrence

Question 26

Who said: "“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”

Answer 26

W.B. Yeats

Question 27

Who said:”

“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile” “?

Answer 27

Homer

Question 28

Who said: “A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”?

Answer 28

Louis Pasteur

Question 29

Who said “God made only water, but man made wine.”?

Answer 29

Vixtor Hugo, 1856