A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when… — 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 knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
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… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
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
