#wine

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#bird #cellar #choose #depending #food

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cask #cellar #child #course #first

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#business #company #drinking #find #god

I am not old but mellow like good wine. ↗

— Stephen Phillips

#good #i #i am #like #mellow

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#because #doing #downing #else #enjoyment

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. ↗

— Plautus

#celebrate #let us #occasion #sweet #us

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #bump #i #least #off

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. ↗

— Colin Powell

#bad #bad news #improve #news #wine

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. ↗

— David E. Price

#am #any #closely #fact #faith

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#had #i #nothing #opened #restaurant