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Wine Wisdom for QLD’s Wine Country

There’s no doubt that the ability to enhance one’s witty repartee with words of wine wisdom enhances one’s credibility as a wine connoisseur immeasurably, so we have compiled a list of 20 quotable quotes to help you look good and sound knowledgeable while you are visiting the 50 cellar doors in QLD’s Wine Country where award-winning wine makers are waiting to guide you through unique tasting experiences.

QLD's Wine Country Wisdom - Vines

“My only regret in life is that I didn’t drink more wine.” Ernest Hemingway

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” W.C. Fields

“Wine is bottled poetry.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.” Lord Byron

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“Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory – but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.” Clifton Fadiman

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” Louis Pasteur

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

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” Paulo Coelho

QLD's Wine Country Wisdom - Insight

“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.” Charles Baudelaire

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

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.” Benjamin Franklin

“In vino veritas (In wine there is truth).” Alcaeus

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

QLD's Wine Country Wisdom - The Pour

“Wine rejoices the heart of man, and joy is the mother of all virtues.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Wine… the intellectual part of the meal.” Alexandre Dumas

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” Galileo Galilei

“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” Rumi

“I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn’t know the difference between Bordeaux and claret.” Basil Fawlty

QLD's Wine Country - Cheers

See how many quotable quotes you can nonchalantly squeeze into your casual conversations with new friends in QLD’s Wine Country. There is a tradition in our part of the world that whoever has the highest tally in a single session must be given a bottle of wine by the rest of their crew. The best piece of wine wisdom we can offer you is to start practicing now.

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