118 Classy Wine Quotes & Funny Captions for Instagram

Wine lovers – you’re in the right place! Great wine calls for a great caption and Instagram post! Below are our favorite wine quotes for Instagram to create the perfect caption to share on social media!

Updated February 28, 2024

Whether it’s National Wine Day or you just have some really cute wine pictures with good friends, we’ll help you find the perfect Instagram caption!

Wine Quotes for Instagram

Whether you’re looking for funny quotes to share with your friends or interesting quotes from your favorite authors, you’ll find all the inspiration you need for every wine photo you post on Instagram.

“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Here’s to alcohol, the rose-colored glasses of life.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Beer is made by men, wine by God!” — Martin Luther

“Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.”– Michael Broadbent

“Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.” – Homer

“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” — Benjamin Franklin

“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.” -Ernest Hemingway

“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” – Frank Sinatra

The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations. French proverb

“Compromises are for relationships, not wine.” — Sir Robert Scott Caywood

“The discovery of good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.” – Robert Burns, Go Fetch to me a Pint o’ Wine

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.” -Eduardo Galeano

“Wine is life.” — Petronius

“I’m a wine enthusiast. The more wine I drink, the more enthusiastic I get!” – Anonymous

“Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.” — Napoleon

“Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory, but so are those of the ballet or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.” — Napoleon

“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.” – Karl Marx

“Come quickly! I am tasting stars!” — Dom Perignon

“Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.” – Alexander Fleming

“Where there is no wine there is no love.” – Euripides

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.” – Victor Hugo

“Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” — Pope John XXIII

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” – Benjamin Franklin

“A meal without wine is like a day without sun.” – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“There comes a time in the day when no matter what the question is, the answer is always wine.” – Anonymous

“Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.” — Lord Byron

“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” ― Rumi

“Wine… the intellectual part of the meal.” — Alexandre Dumas

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” – Oliver Goldsmith

“Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.” – Charles Kingsley

“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I drink to make other people more interesting.” – Ernest Hemmingway

“Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.” — Horace

“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy.” – Frank Sinatra

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.” — Clifton Fadiman

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather, and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” – John Keats

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” – Louis Pasteur

“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.” – Louis Pasteur

“Here’s to the corkscrew – a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly.” — W.E.P. French

“I drink and I know things.” – Tyrion Lannister

“If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.” – Sandra Byrd

“These are the best companions for an intelligent woman: a good book and a good glass of wine.” – Augusto Branco

“People who want you in their lives, respect you whether you are grapes or fine wine.” – Sanita Belgrave

“The wine-cup is the little silver well, where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.” — William Shakespeare

“An empty bottle of wine is better than a filled one. It shows achievement.” – Unknown

“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.” — André Simon

“If I ever go missing I’d like my picture put on wine bottles instead of milk cartons. This way my friends will know to look for me. – Unknown

“Wine, it’s in my veins and I can’t get it out.” – Burgess Meredith

“His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine.” – E.E. Cummings

“The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.” – Marty Rubin

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” ― W.C. Fields

“A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.” – W.C. Fields

“Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.” — Samuel Johnson

“More important than the food pairing is the person with whom you drink the wine.” – Christian Moueix

“Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there’s red wine.” – Unknown

“What wine goes with Captain Crunch?” ― George Carlin

“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.” – Clifton Fadiman

“Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.” — Napoleon

“A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.” ― Anonymous

“For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red.” — Psalms 75:8

“They say ‘do what you love and money will follow.’ So I ate cheesecake and drank some wine…now I wait.” – Unknown

“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” ― Charles Baudelaire

“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” ― Joan Collins

“I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.” – Rose Kennedy

“Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.” -Basil Bunting

“Wine is bottled poetry.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“‘Novinophobia’ – The fear of running out of wine.” – Unknown

“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink, I feel shame! Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this wine, they might be out of work, and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, ‘It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.” –Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

“I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.” –Drew Barrymore

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”—Joan Collins

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” –Galileo

“Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine.” –Frank Sinatra

“The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes of its secrets.” – Salvador Dali

“Wine makes all things possible.” – George R. R. Martin

“All wines should be tasted. Some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” – Paulo Coelho

“Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.” – Julia Child

“For when the wine is in, the wit is out.”—Thomas Becon

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”—Louis Pasteur

“My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.”—Jonathan Swift

“A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.” — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.” — Stephen Phillips

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.” ― Francis Bacon

“Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.” – Eric Weiner

“There’s nothing better than a glass of wine, a girlfriend, and a long talk.” – Karen Fairchild

“The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!” – Francois Rabelais

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” –Aristophanes

“Husbands are like wine; they take a long time to mature.” – Letters to Juliet

“I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.” — Fiorello La Guardia

More Wine Captions for Instagram

With these fun wine Instagram captions, you’ll have tons of great captions to add to your Insta shots.

Wine flies when when your with your best friend!

Great wine leads to a good time and a great story with the best friends!

Tonight’s forecast calls for great views and great company with a 100 percent chance of wine and good food.

I’m on cloud wine.

Working nine to wine.

“In vino, veritas!” — Pliny the Elder

Spilling a glass of wine is the adult equivalent of letting go of a balloon.

Start the day with a smile. End the day with a glass of wine.

Hakuna moscato! It means no worries.

Meet a good friend of wine!

Love, like wine, gets better with time.

After a long day’s work, it’s wine couch Wednesday!

Hardest hardest decision today – red or white wine?

Sweet child of wine!

You only live once – so drink great wine.

More wine – Less whine

Wine is the answer. I just don’t remember the question.

Wine Not?

Every recipe calls for a glass of wine

I only drink wine on days that end with a “y”.

Life is too short to drink bad wine

Home is where the wine is.

It’s time to wine down.

Wine and friends is the greatest blend.

There’s nothing I would rather do than share a glass of wine with you

A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, “A man can live without art, but not without culture.” — Unknown

Champagne Quotes

“And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.” — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Lover

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of Champagne.” – Bette Davis

“I only drink Champagne when I’m happy, and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty.” – Lily Bollinger

“Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you’ve got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.” – Hester Browne

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