“Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It is the essence of civilization and the art of living.” – Robert Mondavi

“There’s something about being able to literally consume a work of art – then to divide all that pleasure of it – because it’s a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it’s an extraordinary experience.” – Robert Parker

“There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.” – Robert Parker

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

“If you don’t have consistency, you can’t win over the hearts of wine lovers.”

“Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.”

“Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.”

“Nothing is better for the soil than the farmer’s footprints”

“Champagne… le vin des roos  le roi des vins.” (Champagne… the wine of kings, the king of wines.)

“Nurture the land, and return what you take.” – Donald Hess