I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
The sparkling wines from Ridgeview Estate [. . . ] are superb and will forever put to rest the notion that England is not capable of making good wine.
I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
Only 10 percent of the people in the U. S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.
The best wines take the longest to mature.
In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.
All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.
In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.
Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
There are many wines that taste great, but do not drink well
The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.
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.
Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.
