在文学中，向来不缺乏葡萄酒的身影，许多爱好葡萄酒的诗人、作家笔下都诞生过与葡萄酒相关的妙语，有的浪漫、虔诚，有的俏皮、幽默，不论何种，说出或写下它的人，内心一定对葡萄酒情有独钟。
1. “请给我几卷书，一杯法国葡萄酒，水果，风和日丽的天气，不知谁弹奏的音乐从远方传来。”
——英国浪漫主义诗人约翰·济慈
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” (By John Keats)
2. “我喜欢餐桌上，我们交谈的模样，智慧的葡萄酒，闪着光芒。”
——诺贝尔奖得主、诗人巴勃鲁·聂鲁达
“I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.” (By Pablo Neruda)
3. “酒入于口，爱生于眸；人老逝前，应知之理。举杯在口，顾彼叹息。”
——爱尔兰诗人威廉·巴特勒·叶芝，王立秋译
"Wine comes in at the mouth, And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth, Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh." (By William Butler Yeats）
4. “树荫下放着一卷诗章，一瓶葡萄美酒，一点干粮，有你在这荒原中傍我欢歌，荒原呀，啊，便是天堂。”——波斯诗人、数学家莪默·伽亚谟
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou, Beside me singing in the Wilderness. Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! " (By Omar Khayyam)
5. “如果我们喝点葡萄酒，我们会在茫茫黑夜中，看到梦想。”
——20世纪英国小说家、批评家、诗人戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯
“If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.” (By David Herbert Lawrence)
6. “一个人总是要沉醉于一样东西，可以沉醉于葡萄酒，沉醉于诗，沉醉于美德。”
——法国十九世纪现代派诗人夏尔·波德莱尔
"……be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish." (By Charles Baudelaire)
7. “一瓶美酒，就像一幕好剧，任何时候回想起来都熠熠生辉。”
——苏格兰作家、诗人罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森
"A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect." (By Robert Louis Stevenson)
8. “有四样物什即使经历年岁也是最好的：老树可以当柴火，陈年的葡萄酒喝起来更好，老朋友让人信任，老作家的文章耐读。”
——英国唯物主义哲学家、作家，弗朗西斯·培根
"……age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." (By Francis Bacon)
