Connoisseurship Quotes

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

You gotta be think'n Sam Adams, not drink'n Sam Adams

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

If 'Spectator Business' works, we will continue this brand extension strategy and look at everything from 'Spectator Arts' to 'Spectator Style and Travel' or 'Spectator Connoisseur.'

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

I'm not really a food connoisseur.