“The discovery of a wine is a greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.”  

“Age gives a wine a sense of beauty and satisfaction that it could never have had before when it was young. In our minds, we intuit that beauty and satisfaction as a feeling of completeness.… Continue reading

Wine … changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall… Continue reading

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”  

“Partly we recovered the old familiar things, partly we created something wondrous and new.”

Across Sonoma Mountain, wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smolders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive.

For wine lovers, the discovery of terroir is a breakthrough that cannot be unbroken. Once you’ve found it, you’ll seek it in all wines for the rest of your life.

“The first obligation of any wine is to be delicious.”

“The inseparable connection in southern France between wine, food, and the earth reminds me that wine is a gift from God. In a visceral sense, drinking Châteauneuf-du-Pape and eating local sausages becomes a way of… Continue reading

“To drink Champagne in a flute glass is like going to a concert with earplugs in. You lose everything that is fragile and nuanced.”

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”

“When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is drinking.”