Padma Lakshmi Quotes

Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it.

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'

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.

Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.

I read about wine every day.

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.

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

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

I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

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.

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.