Napa Valley Quotes

My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

California: The west coast of Iowa.

I love coming back around Northern California.

Nicole and I have always wanted to be winemakers, but we didn't think we would be able to do that until our 50s. But when our friends in Napa came to us and said, 'We really want to do a wine line with you,' how do you say no to that?

Before I lived in America, my husband and I did a Californian road trip. We took a month, starting off in L.A. I love the landscapes of California: one moment you're in the desert, the next you're up in the Napa Valley or by the water in Big Bear.

Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it.

I'm from the Bay Area.

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

I've always enjoyed drinking wine, ever since I was in college. My appreciation really took off when I began to visit Napa. I was toying with an idea of making wine in Napa, but it's prohibitively expensive, and the competition is fierce.

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

California is an unbelievable state.

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

I can tell you I love California - and no more.

I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.

California is always in my mind.

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

I fell in love with wine in Napa Valley. I fell in love with the culture and the restaurants and the way the wood tastes when you're drinking wine.