Robert M. Parker Jr. Quotes

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

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

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

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

I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne.

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

Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood - it's not likely they're going to improve. On the other hand, they're not going to get any worse.

Without sulfites, wine may smell and taste funky or re-ferment in the bottle. Many distributors and shop owners are consequently reluctant to stock wines made without sulfites.

As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.

I'm not a real big wine drinker. I enjoy wine from a distance.

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

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

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

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

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.