Wine Pairing Quotes

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

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.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

Wine makes all things possible.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

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

There are more people enjoying wine in India, they are interested in exploring new things and I think wine is part of that journey.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

I don't know anything about the wine world at all.

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

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

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.