Robert M. Parker Jr. Quotes

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.

I love Far Niente, Cakebread Chardonnay, and I love Opus One!

Am I an elitist because I like wine?

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

My glass of wine and I are besties.

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.