Wine
"They say in Napa Valley, 'The best fertilizer for the vineyard is the owner's footsteps.'"
"Women are a bit more adventurous when it comes to trying different varietals."
"We go back to '59 on Burgundy, '61 on Bordeaux, '74 on California."
"If you're filling the vines with chemicals they become lazy. They don't explore the soil."
"In the early evening, at least, most sales were half-bottles of Beaujolais to solitary ladies."
"Perhaps the Merrie Englanders and the Puritans are not so far apart as each imagines."
"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."
"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."