Wine Connoisseur Quotes

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005.

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.

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

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.

I don't do anything by halves and wine is an expensive passion.

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 don't know anything about the wine world at all.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

The way people connected with wine intrigued me and I wanted to be a part of it.

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.