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Vineyard Views
Welcome to Vineyard Views! On these pages we will introduce you to some of the people in and around the wine industry that make your wine region travel more interesting. Our targets include winemakers and winery owners, tasting room and vineyard managers, chefs and cheese makers, and anyone else that you might run into, buy products from or might otherwise have an impact on your experience in the wine regions around the world.
Hidden Creek Interview February 2008
Cedar Mountain Interview March 2008
Mitchell Katz Interview May 2008
Harvest Moon Interview June 2008
Peachy Canyon Interview August 2008
Benovia Interview August 2008
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For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
~ Thomas Becon
Grapes are the most noble and challenging of fruits.
~ Malcolm Dunn
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
~ William Shakespeare
After-dinner talk across the walnuts and the wine.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.
~ Stephen Phillips
Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.
~ John Masefield
Veni Vidi Vici Vino! [I came, I saw, I conquered Wine]
~ Lori Lapides
Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
~ Johnny Mercer
Fill high the cup with Samian wine!
~ Lord Byron
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, an' fill it in a silver tassie.
~ Robert Burns
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'.
~ G.K. Chesterton
The wine they drink in Paradise they make in Haute Lorraine.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Wino Forever.
~ Johnny Depp
The smell of wine, oh how much more delicate, cheerful, gratifying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil.
~ Rabelias Gargantua
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
~ Samuel Johnson
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
~ Cardinal Richeleu
Wine and wenches empty men's purses.
~ English Proverb
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after.
~ Lord Byron, Don Juan
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
~ 1 Timothy, 5:23
Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away. wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars.
~ Wycherly
Wine ... cheereth God and man.
~ Judges, 9:13
Wine is bottled poetry.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
~ Shakespeare
Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.
~ Spanish saying
The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.
~ French proverb
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
~ Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.
~ Anon French Proverb
He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Martin Luther, 1777
God made only water, but man made wine.
~ Vixtor Hugo, 1856
Blessed is the fruit of the Vine.
~ Jewish Prayer
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
~ Louis Pasteur
What though youth gave love and roses age still leaves us friends and wine.
~ Thomas Moore
Up to the age of forty eating is beneficial. After forty, drinking.
~ The Talmud, 200BC
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler.
~ Titus Maccius
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
~ The Book of Psalms
How much better is thy love than wine!
~ The Song of Solomon
Like the best wine . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
~ The Song of Solomon
Over the wine-dark sea.
~ Homer
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
~ Alcaeus
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
~ Heraclitus
In vino veritas [In wine is truth].
~ Proverb quoted by Plato
I am falser than vows made in wine.
~ William Shakespeare
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
~ John Gay
Who does not love wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Johann Heinrich Voss
What though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine.
~ Thomas Moore
Con pan y vino se anda el camino [With bread and wine you can walk your road]. ~ Anonymous: Spanish Proverb
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
~ Ovid
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
~ Aristophanes
Hey Man, I'm drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays.
~ Donald Sutherland
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
~ Robert Fripp
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
~ Austin O'Malley
In water one sees one's own face; But in wine, one beholds the heart of another.
~ An Old Frech proverb
Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of care.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can have too much champagne, but you can never have enough.
~ Elmer Rice