Bianca Bosker

“never drink the same wine twice.”

— Bianca Bosker

“Wine is freedom,”

— Bianca Bosker

“After blood, wine is the most complex matrix there is.”

— Bianca Bosker

“BSD” wines, code for big-swinging-dick bottles”

— Bianca Bosker

“Drink for thirst, but taste with purpose.”

— Bianca Bosker

“Robert Louis Stevenson called wine “bottled poetry,”

— Bianca Bosker

“she’d decorated in a style best described as Vinous Chic.”

— Bianca Bosker

“Marea’s reservationists are required to Google every one of its guests,”

— Bianca Bosker

“some somms would offer their favorite obscure wines at a lower markup, then make up the difference with the gimmes.”

— Bianca Bosker

“rats, mice, and snakes scooped up from the vineyard can accidentally get mixed in.)”

— Bianca Bosker

“Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you.”

— Bianca Bosker

“Wine,” declared the nineteenth-century novelist Alexandre Dumas, “is the intellectual part of the meal.”

— Bianca Bosker

“The first restaurants advertised to Parisian passersby with the motto “I Shall Restore You.”

— Bianca Bosker

“No wine is ever as delicious as it was when you tried it at the winery while some suave winemaker walked you…

— Bianca Bosker

“When he poured a taste of Madeira for the Master Sommelier at my table, a splash of wine hit the rim of…

— Bianca Bosker

“There is no fault that can’t be corrected [in natural wine] with one powder or another; no feature that can’t be engineered…

— Bianca Bosker