Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Wine Quotations

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.