Pat Paulsen Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

My glass of wine and I are besties.

I'm a firm believer of wine.

I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Am I an elitist because I like wine?

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

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

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

I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!

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

Wine makes all things possible.

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

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

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.