a few of my favourite quotations :-

"From wine what sudden friendship springs"
John Gay "The Squire and his Cat"

"Wine makes old wives wenches"
John Clarke 17th century

Drink wine in Winter for cold, and in Summer for heat
- old proverb

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

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

The best use of bad wine is to drive away unwanted relations
- French proverb

"Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the sould and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth."
Charles Edward Montague
"Judith"