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"We have to get back to the visceral love, pleasure, seduction, sensuality of it."
"Old school vs. new school, Bob Hope vs. Adam Sandler, dirt vs. fruit."
"[To] buy a bottle of wine from me makes me a bootlegger. That's not right."
"The ethos," says Norby, "was to blend in and respect nature, be part of it."
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"I knew I wanted mountain fruit - a little bit of a clunky, rustic quality."
"Wine is the only beverage on the planet that draws people together, right?"
"Those of us who had been wringing our hands all that time in California said, "Well, yeah."
"France is known for great wine, but that will never happen down here, because we're just South America."
The first tasting was in the Rheinhessen; the cellarmaster was a 90-year-old woman.
"I would get all crazy about how beautiful the vineyards are in fall or about how the air smells like wine during crush."
"Flavor, in terms of wine quality, is secondary. It is important, but it is secondary."
"But they're Mexican wines, which most people haven't heard of, and that gives them a bit of cachet."
"When it's your goal to educate folks about wine, entry-level will take you only so far."
"You could do a liberal arts degree with wine as the organizing principle."