These are some of our favourite wine quotes:

"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"The soft extractive note of an aged cork being withdrawn has the true sound of a man opening his heart."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