Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and more than an expression of its physical origin. The real significance of wine as the nexus of just… — Gerald Asher Copy Share
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet. — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other. — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like,… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted. — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and more than an expression of its physical origin. The real significance of wine as the nexus of just about everything became clearer to me when I started writing about it. The more I read, the more I traveled,… — Gerald Asher Copy Share
A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
