“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Wine is a grand thing,” I said. “It makes you forget all the bad.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary sourceDrinking Corsica Food Plans Europe