“Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.” – Plato

The wine-cup is the little silver well,
Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
– William Shakespeare, English poet and writer, (1564-1616)

Had I but died an hour before this chance
I had liv’d a blessed time; for, from this instant,
There’s nothing serious in mortality,
All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
– William Shakespeare in Macbeth

I am falser than vows made in wine.
– William Shakespeare in As You Like It

A man cannot make him laugh – but that’s no marvel; he drinks no wine.
– William Shakespeare

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.
– William Shakespeare in Othello

There’s none of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth so overcool their blood…that they fall into a kind of male green sickness; and when they marry they get wenches…If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and addict themselves to sack.

Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eye.
– William Shakespeare

Good wine needs no bush.
– William Shakespeare

The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees is left this vault to brag of.
– William Shakespeare