Robert M. Parker Jr. Quotes

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.

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

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

The way people connected with wine intrigued me and I wanted to be a part of it.

There are more people enjoying wine in India, they are interested in exploring new things and I think wine is part of that journey.

I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about 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.

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

I fell in love with wine in Napa Valley. I fell in love with the culture and the restaurants and the way the wood tastes when you're drinking 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'm not a real big wine drinker. I enjoy wine from a distance.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

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

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

Wine makes all things possible.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

I'm a firm believer of wine.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!

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.

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.