The Quotable Wine Lover

by Kate Fiduccia

the-quotable-wine-lover The Quotable Wine Lover by Kate Fiduccia is a great little book that all wine lovers should have on hand, whether as a coffee table book, on your desk to visit frequently, or in between the couch cushions where you know you won’t lose it. I personally enjoy picking it up and reading some quotes with a couple glasses of Cabernet while somewhat horizontal on my eight-foot chaise lounge… But you choose your own way to enjoy it.

The book is a couple hundred pages of fun quotes, sayings, and thoughts on wine by all kinds – poets, celebrities, authors, wine makers, chefs, newspapers, the Bible, and more. There is a quick forward by Daniel Johnnes, wine director and head sommelier at Montrachet, a fine New York restaurant. The Quotable Wine Lover is broken up into six fun, well thought out sections:

Contemporary Wine Lovers
Wine In History
Proverbs and Prose
Wine, Religion, & Temperance
A Toast to Wine
Vinters’ Wisdom

You’ll find quotes, sayings and thoughts from Ernest Hemingway, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Mondavi, Bette Davis, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Napoleon Bonaparte, Julia Child, Tina Turner, Will Rogers, WC Fields, and many, many more. The book is well put together and a lot of fun. It’s a great gift to give at around $20. So, on that note, I’ll leave you with a few of my favorite short quotes in the book and a recommendation to buy it.