Wine Quotes

quotes_iconThese are some of our favourite wine quotes. Send us yours and we will send the best for each month an Mt Tully tasting Pack, that’s 1 bottle each of our red and white.

"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infininite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?"

Isak Dineson, Seven Gothic Tales

"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne."

John Maynard Keynes.

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food!”

God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all. – Anonymous

"The soft extractive note of an aged cork being withdrawn has the true sound of a man opening his heart." - William S. Benwell, "Journey to Wine in Victoria," Melbourne 76

A clipping from The Times of London, circa 1798: "'To which University,' said a lady, some time since, to the late sagacious Dr. Warren, 'shall I send my son?' 'Madam,' replied he, 'they drink, I believe, near the same quantity of Port in each of them.'"

"Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day." - Angelo Pelligrini, 'The Unprejudiced Palate'

Donald Sutherland as Oddball, in "Kelly's Heros: "Hey Man, I'm drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays."

Sir Robert Scott Caywood: "Compromises are for relationships, not wine."

"Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it." - contributed by Peter Knudsen, Tully, QLD
 

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GOLD FOR MOUNT TULLY

After years of winning bronze and silver medals, Mount Tully have won gold at the Queensland Wine Awards in Nov 08. Three red wines were entered and all 3 won a medal.

 

 
Another award for Mt Tully

The Mt Tully Vines 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot received a Bronze Medal at the Australian Small Winemakers Show early in November. We were also pleasantly surprised with the high score that our new sweet red, Mother in Law’s Tongue received, just out of the medals.