Expensive Wine Quotes

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

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

From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be a problem if the wines sold for under $20, many are in fact $75-$150. That's appalling.

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

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

English wine is nonsense. They are over-priced and not very good.

There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably expensive (they're made in tiny quantities from ancient vines), they are huge, rich and concentrated, and represent some of planet Earth's most compelling wines.

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."