I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.
Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
I'm definitely drawn to stories of just regular folks, just generally in some kind of horrific situation. I keep saying I want to do a love story in the south of France with a boy and girl and some wine. Then I always end up in an oil rig with four hundred guys or on a mountain with guys shooting at each other.
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.
I am not old but mellow like good wine.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.
I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate.
When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
