Wine
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."
'He started posting black-and-white photos of loyal customers on the inside walls.'
I think there's this kind of Puritan streak in wine writing.
'I smell red fruit - red plums, red cherries, a little cranberry.'
'I'm overjoyed whenever I see references to Mexican wine in the literature.'
'Premium wine grapes don't thrive where ice plants and salty sea foam happily commingle.'
'People just went ballistic over that combination.'