When I need to decompress, I grab a glass of wine, some popcorn, and a great book.
I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard.
Take Jonathan Franzen’s work: it’s just old wine in new bottles. They say he’s the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.
I don’t really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it’s someone’s birthday, I’ll pretend I like red wine for about three sips.
I’d rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What’s the good of living if you can’t have the things that give a little enjoyment?
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it’s because I’m a real working-class.
Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don’t starve myself in an extremist way. You’re not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I’d be devastated.
I do yoga every day, some sport, have a meal once a day, eat some fruit, and drink one glass of wine. And once a month I gather together my close friends. But my wife and I do not like conspicuous luxury.
I spoke to the ‘Wine Spectator’ because that’s PR; that’s how you sell wine.
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
It’s nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, ‘The Wine Advocate.’ There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).
My husband and I do love a really great red wine.
For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It’s a family tradition: We would never consider having a meal without wine.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
I do like my wine.
There are some pretty darn good bottles of wine for $50. I think I can tell that from a bottle of wine that costs $15 or $20.
My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.
You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don’t drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day – that’s what I’m down to. I drink wine – you know, I’m normal. But I do eat well.
When I started trying wine, I started drinking merlot, and that’s all I had. I would go to dinner, and I’d see people drinking wine, and if I ordered anything, it would just be a merlot.
I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It’s all me.
No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional’s judgment.
I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice.
I wanted to do a lot of things in wine, but I didn’t know how to do it. So before I invested in anything, before I really put my dollars into it, I put my whole heart, soul, mind into it so that I really understand the severity of each outcome, the severity of success and the severity of failure.
I just started using this app called Wine and Dine. It’s like Instagram, but only for food. You post what you’re eating and follow your friends, and then you can say, ‘I wanna try that,’ and so when you go on your ‘wanna try’ list, it’ll tell you where it is.
Age, they say, is only important if you’re cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
You can wine and dine all around the globe but the joy of coming back home to a meal cooked by your mom is pure bliss.
I like to have fish and salad – mackerel, Dover sole or gurnard, and I usually pan-fry it or use the barbecue. I make salad with avocados, tomato, lettuce and spring onions, with an olive oil and red wine dressing.
I ate no butcher’s meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.
We would go to visit a wholesaler, say in Napoli. We would go out, have a very long lunch, mozzarellas, wine. We would reach an agreement. And then the client would pay with a cheque that was postdated by six months, nine months. They were financing themselves by delaying their payments.
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like ‘Charade,’ ‘Moon River,’ ‘Wine and Roses,’ ‘Dear Heart’ – they were all just themes that grew out of the picture.
In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it’s getting sharper with time.
I’ve always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you – mentally, physically, and spiritually.
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That’s the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don’t talk about football or anything like that.
I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of ‘Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.’
I’ll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren’t right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.
O-Med doesn’t make vinegars that you would ever consider cleaning with. They’re lush, like burying your nose in a platter of lavender and peaches, with the concentrated, fruity essence of a good glass of wine.
At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine in the glass, and it goes very well with the cheese. And that is what they do in France, and I think they set a good example.
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
I’m like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
I’m not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I’ve never overeaten – I’d much rather have a glass of wine.
Anything I do in life, I always want to work hard, play hard and so I’m still drinking my wine, I’m still eating my McDonald’s on Sundays, but I am working hard through the week.
I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine – that’s my idea of a perfect dinner.
If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.
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.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called ‘Surfing the Menu,’ and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.
When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.
I use a Kiehl’s spray when I fly. Your skin gets so dry on a plane. And I always have to have a little glass of wine. I’m French! I have to. It’s part of my life.
