wine songs (2026 Update)

There is always To Anachreon in Heaven (The Star-Spangled Banner) ...

And of course, Dino Martino's "Lil ole wine drinker me!"

#6 hit from Google:

Mark Lipton

Wasn't there a Country Western song with the refrain "Kisses sweeter than wine"? I often wondered about the sort of wines the singer preferred; Thunderbird maybe?

James, Yes, "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" was recorded by Jimmie Rodgers in the late 1950s. Back in those days "Country" songs sometimes ended up on the "Pop" charts. I don't know what they were drinking, but according to the song, they had lots of kids and grandkids.

BTW: Mark, thanks for the intowine.com link

Dick

Close! Eric Burdon and War!

Classical music, especially Opera, has a huge number of drinking songs. Verdi's Falstaff sang about sack (sherry), although I suspect he would have liked anything of quality with alcohol in it. The faq link of our group at

There is a Blu-ray recording of Richard Strauss' Salome by the Royal Opera. Instead of being set in ancient times as intended, it is set in a German Castle in the WWII era. It includes full nudity by some woman and full frontal nudity by the man who brings the severed head of John to Salome as she demanded. I guess the man did not want to ruin his clothes when he severed the head of John. She is offered jewels, peacocks, and a costly wine to drink with Herod, but nothing will satisfy her but to kiss the lips of John's severed head. I wonder if the Queen saw this version of Salome at the Royal Opera and what she thought, if she did? This style of re-casting an opera to recent times with sometimes little connection to the original has been fairly common in Europe, and many of the operas of Wagner have been so butchered, for example. Many call this style "Euro Trash".

And there is always "Chevaliers de la Table Ronde"

Tim Hartley

It's way older than that. It's not really Country and Western, but was written by the Weavers in 1950, based on a Leadbelly tune.

Ken