Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

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.

Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?