“…Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams.” —Jack Handey, humorist
“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.… Continue reading
“Perhaps the nearest I come to gluttony is with wine.”—M.F.K. Fischer
“Perhaps the nearest I come to gluttony is with wine. As often as possible, when a really beautiful bottle is before me, I drink all of it I can, even when I know that I… Continue reading
“Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life.” —Dan Aykroyd
“Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in than… Continue reading
“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”
“When we urgently chase the ‘stellar,’ we actually do collateral damage.”
“The great is the enemy of the good,’ the saying goes, and this is also true of wine. When we urgently chase the ‘stellar,’ we actually do collateral damage. Running after exalted wine experiences can… Continue reading
“When it’s good, Pinot Noir doesn’t knock your socks off. It slips them off—slowly.”
“The process of tasting is so hidden, so private, so internal that the impressions that result from it cannot be extracted and observed by anyone else to be compared and discussed.” —Jancis Robinson
“As I know only too well, taste is almost impossible to describe. The process of tasting is so hidden, so private, so internal that the impressions that result from it cannot be extracted and observed… Continue reading
“Wine is one of the miracles of nature” — Hugh Johnson
“No critic should forget, as he dallies with epithets, sipping his oak-fermented chardonnay or rates one precious bottle half a point behind another, that wine is one of the miracles of nature, and that its… Continue reading
“If we look at a glass of wine closely enough, we see the entire universe.” — Richard Feynman
It is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough, we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid that evaporates depending on the wind and… Continue reading
“We want to rock people’s worlds. Not scream about sugar levels.” — Paul Grieco
“We have 90 wines by the glass, typically about 30 rieslings. We offer our guests two sips of riesling, one off-dry and one trocken, then walk away. More than 50 percent of the time, they choose… Continue reading
Judgement of Paris a win-win—Steven Spurrier
“By far the most important thing for me from the [Judgement of Paris tasting], apart from it being a ‘win-win’ for both France and California, as the former was resting on its laurels and needed… Continue reading