I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.
You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.
Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.
The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar.
There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.
I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.
For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.
You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.
One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.
I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.
I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
