Barrel Aging Quotes

At Andretti Winery, I'm not the winemaker.

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel that these people talk to the grapes. Wine is a lifestyle, and you can talk about it for ages. It's a passion, but it's not something I can do on a daily basis.

A lot of hard work goes into making a great wine. It requires that same type of dedication and discipline that goes into getting to the Super Bowl as an NFL player.

The French make the best wine.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.

My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Walla Walla is where I make wine, with Eric Dunham. He and I partnered up on a small project for me. We make pretty good cabernet and syrah.

We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.