“I love tasting wine…”
“Great wine in its youth…”—Hugh Johnson
“Wine is the natural beverage for every celebration.”—Robert Mondavi
“We believe wine is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. It is a liquid food that has been part of civilization for 8,000 years. Wine has been praised for centuries… Continue reading
“Wine is an art…”—Jean-Paul Hébrart
“Wine is an art where the winegrower gives himself the mission of achieving a passionate ‘creation of work’ that corresponds to his personal interpretation of his terroir. The winegrower is imbued with an ancestral knowledge… Continue reading
“’Solo per Amore’—’for the love of it’—has many meanings.”—Carlo Mondavi, Sorì della Sorba
When we asked Carlo Mondavi what Solo per Amore meant (it’s the name of this week’s Wine to Know), here’s what he said: “’Solo per Amore’—’for the love of it’—has many meanings. The first is that… Continue reading
On Sherry
“What is the highest-touch style of winemaking? Not an industrial wine with a ton of additives, but a wine of beauty and authenticity that is totally reliant on people power to reach its full potential.… Continue reading
“…If you take your aesthetic inspiration from wine…”
“…If you take your aesthetic inspiration from wine, you celebrate ephemerality, perishability, and fragility. Aromas blink in and out of existence like quantum states. As wine sits in the barrel, bottle, or glass it is… Continue reading
“A fine wine…”
“A fine wine is complex, balanced, with a potential to age—though highly drinkable at every stage of its development. It’s a wine that provokes emotions and wonder in the one drinking it, while reflecting the… Continue reading
“…from pale, fair and ethereal to saturated and stacked…”
“Both Chardonnay and Pinot Noir tell their stories across a broad arc of expression; from pale, fair and ethereal to saturated and stacked. In some vintages, these voices come together in one symphonic chorus but… Continue reading
“…what confers authenticity is a rootedness…”–Terry Theise
“If you want to experience wine with your whole self, not only your mind and senses, the wine has to be authentic. And what confers authenticity is a rootedness in family, soil, and culture as… Continue reading