Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. – Rumi
If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it’s so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that’ll lead you to another wine. – Padma Lakshmi
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller’s being. – Patrick MacGill
Some people say, ‘Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don’t you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?’ But that’s not me. – Shah Rukh Khan
The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together. – Richard Hamming
What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there’s a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who’s been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas. – Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Even more importantly, it’s wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life. – Robert Mondavi
There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I’d like to be a good cook, although I’m a pretty good eater now. – Rick Wagoner
I like white wine when it’s young and vigorous. I don’t think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it’s white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne. – Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Russians really needed a product that would be not as strong as vodka and not as feminine as cheap sparkling wine, so Martini was a good solution. – Roustam Tariko
I’m definitely drawn to stories of just regular folks, just generally in some kind of horrific situation. I keep saying I want to do a love story in the south of France with a boy and girl and some wine. Then I always end up in an oil rig with four hundred guys or on a mountain with guys shooting at each other. – Peter Berg
I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate. – Robert M. Parker, Jr.
What’s important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security – if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar. – Robert M. Parker, Jr.
My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We’re too old to drink cheap wine, and we don’t. – Paul Henderson
Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it’s also fascinating. It’s the greatest subject to study. No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again. – Robert M. Parker, Jr.
When I put my nose in a glass, it’s like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine. – Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Of course I treat myself every now and then. Once a month I might have pizza and red wine and maybe a dessert, but that’s it. – Ricki-Lee Coulter
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full. – Robert W. Service
Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There’s a built-in romance to wine. – Padma Lakshmi
I do love my wine. I’d opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise. – Rachel Nichols
There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, ‘I’m not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.’ – Sharon Stone
I think wine is such a big universe that it’s kind of like food – it’s intimidating to a lot of people, myself included. – Padma Lakshmi
Without sulfites, wine may smell and taste funky or re-ferment in the bottle. Many distributors and shop owners are consequently reluctant to stock wines made without sulfites. – Roger Morris
In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call ‘authentic’ or ‘natural.’ – Robert M. Parker, Jr.