Crafts Quote by Michael Chiarello

As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifying but that can also provide great satisfaction over several years.

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

The best wines take the longest to mature.

— John Fowles

At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones…

— John Lanchester

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be…

— Michael Broadbent

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.

— Drew Bledsoe

Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a…

— Andre Tchelistcheff

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste,…

— John Galsworthy

Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind…

— Joe Bastianich

“Good wines are produced in small quantities. It is a matter of time and attention and picking only the best grapes. Today they get…

— John Hillaby

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.

— Ernie Els

To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel…

— Thomas Muster