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You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not…

— Michael Broadbent

While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as…

— Natalie MacLean

The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own…

— Marvin Shanken

When I go with my friends who aren't into wine, I love to introduce them to my area of expertise. That's what's exciting about…

— Channing Frye

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be…

— Michael Broadbent

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

— Roger Scruton

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

— Kent Bach

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

— Richard Branson

Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.

— Edmondo De Amicis

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

— Samuel Johnson