There are no great enologists. Only good grapes

A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes.

— Michel Rolland

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

— Ambrose Bierce

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

— Cyril Connolly

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your…

— Khalil Gibran

My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind.

— Alfred Adle

Mr. D, wearing his leopard-skin jogging suit and rummaging through the refrigerator. He looked up lazily. "Do you mind?" Where's Chiron!" I shouted. How…

— Rick Riordan

Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.…

— Roger Scruton

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I…

— Heinrich Heine

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

— Phoebe Cary

The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what…

— Alice Morse Earle

I could spend a whole day at a spa. I'd get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good…

— Dule Hill

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

— Marianne Moore

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

— Frederic Raphael

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were…

— Edith Wharton

Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes.

— Jeaniene Frost