“I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you’re young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.” – Sally Jessy Raphael

“The Americans have no liking for wine unless it is sweet.” – Gustave Koerner

“I’ve always been impressed by Washington State merlot. It just sort of jumped out of the glass at me…You just feel this is right: this is not an attempt at something, this is something.” – Jancis Robinson

“It was such an exquisite 1964 Bordeaux that one sip was more like inhaling a soft fragrance than imbibing a liquid.” – Ellen Eller

“Sauvignon blanc bangs you in the mouth – like an old peasant with his wooden shoe … The sauvignon is the whipper-snapper. It’s not solid enough. It’s violent, it’s sharp, it bites, it cries, it’s like a ferocious dog you keep on a leash.” – Troisgros

“Good wine praises itself.” – Dutch Proverb

“Now wines are wonders; great wines are magical; and winemakers are mad. Like horse fanciers, they are always trying to improve the breed.”  – William E. Massee

“I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.” – Diogenese the Cynic

“When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does – faked it” – Art Buchwald

“I don’t go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody’s ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.” – Richard Thaler