Civilized Quote by Michael Broadbent

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

Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra…

— Marvin Shanken

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

Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the…

— Marvin Shanken

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has…

— Karen MacNeil

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

— Tom Araya

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

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

— Kent Bach

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

— Roger Scruton

Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to…

— William Blake