"You haven't drunk too much wine if you can still lie on the floor without holding on" (Dean Martin)
"At a recent wine tasting a man inhaled deeply and proclaimed, 'I'm getting Brailian woman'." (Jonathan Meades)
This is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse" (D.H Lawrence, on Spanish wine)
"Wine should be stored in a cool, dry place. The glove compartment of a Jaguar or an abandoned washing machine are my personal favourites" (Richard Smith)
"You could have been picking these grapes at the moment that Robert Standford-Tyre was downing a Heinkel over the Channel, in a Hawker Hurricane, which is a nice thought. It should almost be drunk in celebration of it." (James May, commenting on a 1940 Bordeaux, OZ & JAMES' BIG WINE ADVENTURE, BBC.
"Balls. We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here. And we want them now." (Withnail, Richard E Grant, Withnail & I)
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" (Larson E. Whipsnade (W.C. Fields) You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939))
"The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France." (Sam Diamond in Murder by Death (1976))
"I can certainly see you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret." (Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) in Fawlty Towers)
"You could have been picking these grapes at the moment that Robert Standford-Tyre was downing a Heinkel over the Channel, in a Hawker Hurricane, which is a nice thought. It should almost be drunk in celebration of it." (James May, commenting on a 1940 Bordeaux, OZ & JAMES' BIG WINE ADVENTURE, BBC.
"Balls. We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here. And we want them now." (Withnail, Richard E Grant, Withnail & I)
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" (Larson E. Whipsnade (W.C. Fields) You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939))
"The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France." (Sam Diamond in Murder by Death (1976))
"I can certainly see you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret." (Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) in Fawlty Towers)
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