“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”

“A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.”

“Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.”

“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”

“A regional match is almost always your best match.”

“Wine is earth’s answer to the sun.”

“I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.”

“It’s a smile. It’s a kiss. It’s a sip of wine. It’s summertime!”

“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.”

“The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.”