“The truth of wine aging is that it is unknown, unstudied, poorly understood, and poorly predicted!”

—Zema Long, California winemaker

 

 

“There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man’s own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.”

—Mark Twain, 1895

“One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it, and—one talks about it.”

—King Edward VII of England

“A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavors. The smells. They just jump out at me. I can taste with a hundred screaming kids in a room. When I put my nose in a glass, it’s like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.”

—Robert M. Parker Jr., author and wine critic, in The Atlantic Monthly

“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”—Benjamin Franklin “Wine is the best of all beverages…because it is purer than water, safer than milk, plainer than soft drinks, gentler than spirits, nimbler than beer, and ever so much more pleasant to the educated senses of sight, smell, and taste than any of the drinkable liquids known to us.”

—Andre L. Simon, author and founder of the Wine & Food Society

“The difference between the Village wine, Puligny-Montrachet, and the Grand Cru Montrachet, is not in the type of wood used in aging or how long the wine is aged in wood. The primary difference is in the location of the vineyards, i.e., the soil and the slope of the land.”

—Robert Drouhin

“And Noah began to be a husbandman and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the vine.”

—Genesis 9:20-2