We know that wine (especially Maryland wine) is wonderful. Here's what some other, less biased, people have to say about the pleasure of fine wine.

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. - Anthelme Brillat Savarin

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow. - Euripides

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

Quickly bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may whet my mind and say something clever. - Euripedes

A waltz and a glass of wine invite an encore. - Johann Strauss

Wine is only sweet to happy men.

Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. - St. Paul, 1 Timothy 5:23

Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved. - Medieval German saying

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it well used. - Shakespeare

Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin

Wine cheereth God and man. - Judges 9:13

Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach. - Spanish saying

No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God. - Plato

God made only water, but man made wine. - Victor Hugo

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. - Louis Pasteur

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Wine is bottled poetry. - Robert Louis Stevenson