Famous authors on books and bottles:

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse – and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness –
And Wilderness is Paradise enow. — Omar Khayyám

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. – George Herbert

I love everything that’s old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing. – Ernest Hemingway

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. – Judith Viorst

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. – Clifton Fadiman