Wine Selection Quotes

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

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.

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

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

At times like this, adults need a drink

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

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.

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".

I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot.

Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often.

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.

I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.