Quotes About Wine

When I was on the Knicks, and I'd have a drink - my drink would be either a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned - businessmen would be drinking only wine. As I continued to go to business dinners with successful businessmen, my drink has now also turned into wine.

The world of wine is more creative than the world of cooking.

To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel that these people talk to the grapes. Wine is a lifestyle, and you can talk about it for ages. It's a passion, but it's not something I can do on a daily basis.

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

In the early '90s, my parents weren't really drinking wine. They had a bottle or two laying around, but it had been a stigma where a bottle of wine had to be for a super special occasion. A bottle of wine had to go with a steak. And it was this thing that seemed so distant.

I love a rack of lamb with a good bottle of red wine.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.

I've always loved my red wine, and when I'm not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so it's one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.

People panic in the kitchen and they don't need to. The first thing to do is to open a nice bottle of wine and relax.

I've got one of those over-stuffed leather chairs from the Pottery Barn. It faces north. I live in San Francisco, so there's the Golden Gate Bridge off to the left, and there's Alcatraz off to the right, and I've got a pile of pulp fiction next to me, and there's usually a decent bottle of red wine next to the fireplace.

When I'm out, I like a glass of red wine. Just before bed, I'll always have a chamomile tea.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

I don't have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.

Vin brule is a version of mulled wine enjoyed in Piemonte, in northwestern Italy. It's a perfect choice for holiday entertaining because you can double or even triple the recipe and leave it over very low heat, ladling it out as your guests come in from the cold.

I like to have a few staff round for a glass of wine although if I'm feeding people I try and leave my glass alone, as it doesn't improve my cooking.

When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

The way I like to cook is to have music going, usually jazz, and something in my hand, usually a glass of wine.

I don't like nouvelle cuisine, too small bits. I like to have a nice wine, nice pasta, tomatoes.