Pier Luigi Loro Piana Quotes

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

There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.

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.

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

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

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.

I'm a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux '82 with a meal or to unwind.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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

In 2002, the 2000 Engelbrecht Els wine was released in South Africa and received high ratings.

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

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.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.

I don't do anything by halves and wine is an expensive passion.

Am I an elitist because I like wine?

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

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?

Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.