Rocco DiSpirito Quotes

I started looking all over for vineyard sites. I studied the conditions that make the best pinots. In the New World, you have to find the great pieces of land. Cool climate counts, but distinctive soil matters more than anything.

Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia, Chateauneuf-du-Pape never developed a reputation for quality or achieved the prestige enjoyed by such regions as Burgundy and Bordeaux.

Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most of the wines produced there were rustic, highly tannic and alcoholic, with little charm or finesse.

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 French make the best wine.

I read about wine every day.

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?

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

I'm a winemaker and a wine collector, so I usually just drink wine.

I don't know anything about the wine world at all.

A big percentage of the Argentine economy is founded on beef ranching, and they produce steaks the size of dustbin lids. Malbec is the finest red wine in the world, and most restaurants have a wide selection.

After my family, wine is the biggest passion of my life without question.

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

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.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.