Mario Lemieux Quotes

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

I do like my wine.

I'm a firm believer of wine.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

I don't drink coffee. I like nice wines with dinner.

The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.

Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

The world of wine is more creative than the world of cooking.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.

I drink a lot of water and a lot of wine. I'm a wine drinker. Red wine, preferably.

If I'm not tasting wine and food... I'm thinking about wine and food. If I'm not thinking about wine and food... I'm writing about wine and food.

I'm not a red wine guy.

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

I like fashion, but it's not something that I follow religiously.

When I started trying wine, I started drinking merlot, and that's all I had. I would go to dinner, and I'd see people drinking wine, and if I ordered anything, it would just be a merlot.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.