Drew Bledsoe Quotes

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

I've always enjoyed drinking wine, ever since I was in college. My appreciation really took off when I began to visit Napa. I was toying with an idea of making wine in Napa, but it's prohibitively expensive, and the competition is fierce.

My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.

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.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.

At Andretti Winery, I'm not the winemaker.

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.

Walla Walla is where I make wine, with Eric Dunham. He and I partnered up on a small project for me. We make pretty good cabernet and syrah.

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

I read about wine every day.

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

Wine is a civilizing agent.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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

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

I do like my wine.

I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.

To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel that these people talk to the grapes. Wine is a lifestyle, and you can talk about it for ages. It's a passion, but it's not something I can do on a daily basis.

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.

It may seem hard to believe - unless you sit down and taste them - but some of the world's greatest sweet wines are made in the Rutherglen region of Victoria, Australia.

I want to get more involved with the vineyards I have all over the world and to spend more time with the people who work in them.

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