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.
At Andretti Winery, I'm not the winemaker.
Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.
There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.
Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.
Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.
One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
The wine business is intense. It's not just bottle it and sell it. It's really a process.
