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*
Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.
You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.
The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.
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.
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.
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
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.
Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.
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.
Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.
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.
Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.
