Robert M. Parker Jr. Quotes

There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with its value wines. These are generally not from specific appellations but blends made by huge enterprises like Penfolds, Rosemount or Casella Estate - the group behind Yellow Tail.

It may seem hard to believe - unless you sit down and taste them - but some of the world's greatest sweet wines are made in the Rutherglen region of Victoria, Australia.

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.

I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

Australian wine and Australian women - that's my weak point. Ha ha ha ha.

The French make the best wine.

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

Today's winemakers still worry about quality.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us — comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken… If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic

Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.

No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave... Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.