“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.”—Ernest Hemingway

“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.”