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"I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since the invention of the funnel."
~~ Malachy McCourt

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"There are no dumb questions, only pretentious people."
~~ Winegeek.com

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."
~~ French

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"I have never been drunk. On occasion, I may have been over-served."
~~ Unknown

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault."
~~ Paul Winalski

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication."
~~ Oscar Wilde

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."
~~ Fran Lebowitz

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"I have it on the highest medical authority that I will still be alive at the turn of the century! She is thrilled. ''You know what this means?'' she asks. Of course I know what it means. It means we do not have to drink up all our 1985 and 1986 Chateau Latour at supper tonight for fear I might die with several outrageously priced wines undrunk. For the first time in years, we can go to bed sober.""
~~ (From The New York Times, May 12 1990.)

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little."
~~ Hermann Smith-Johannson, 103-year-old cross-country skier

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober."
~~ William Butler Yeats

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"I got so wasted one night I waited for the Stop sign to change, and it did."
~~ Steve Krabitz

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

"The only time I ever said no to a drink was when I misunderstood the question."
~~ Will Sinclair

Excerpt from Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers by Malcolm Kushner

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