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
Death in the Afternoon

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
BYRON
Don Juan

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one's present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason.
Latin saying

Wine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Thomas Moore 1779 - 1852
National Airs [1815], Spring and Autumn, st. 1

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. --- Paul Claudel.

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day. --- Frank Sinatra