*** John Williams, owner and winemaker of Frog’s Leap Winery in Napa Valley, on how global warming could impact winegrowing:
“It’s clear that there’s the potential for really substantial problems, and there almost certainly is going to be some change.”
*** Louis Pasteur, a man perhaps more closely associated with milk than wine:
“The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.”
*** Diana Hamann, owner of Wine Goddess Consulting, quoted in the Chicago Tribune:
“Card-carrying red wine drinkers will bemoan the fact that citric acid and red wine is one of the nastiest food/wine combos out there. Citric acid will kill your once-beautiful red wine, leaving it unpleasantly flat and bitter.”
*** Hilaire Belloc, on how wine gets inside you:
“You must let wine approach you in its own way and introduce itself; for then you will find that you have entered into its company, and that is why wine is properly called a companion. The most enduring of companions; the most familiar and putting forth excellence of its own.”
*** John Stuart Blackie, proving that being a scholar does not preclude
one from being a sexist:
“Wine is the milk of the gods, milk the drink of the babies, tea the
drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.”
*** Keep this German proverb (and very short poem) in mind the next
time you’re planning a trip to Germany:
“Rhineland is wineland.”
*** Alexis Bespalof, on cooking with wine:
“A cook who runs out to buy a bottle of cheap wine may spoil several
dollars’ worth of food and perhaps an hour or more of preparation with
a dime’s worth of wine.”
*** This French proverb offers a much better alternative for cheap wine:
“The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.”
*** Advice from Benjamin Franklin:
“Never spare the parson’s wine nor the baker’s pudding.”
*** Ludwig Van Beethoven was among the greatest composers ever, but he also knew how to relax:
“A glass of wine is a great refreshment after a hard day’s work.”
*** Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker and vintner, on the role of wine in
popular media:
“In the past, people were always smoking cigarettes in movies. Today, I
would hardly imagine a fine dinner portrayed in a movie or a television
show that didn’t include wine on the table.”
*** French author Alexandre Dumas, prioritizing the evening meal:
“Wine is the intellectual part of a meal; meats are merely the material
part.”
*** Greek philosopher Plato obviously was a fan of wine:
“No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted
by God.”
*** English actor and restaurateur Michael Caine: “Home is where the wine is.”
