Angeles Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr

After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and…

— Joe Bastianich

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I…

— Joe Bastianich

My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at…

— Ernest Gallo

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

— Paul Prudhomme

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or…

— Joe Bob Briggs

“He had not been in El Paso for years, and they had developed it considerably since then, he'd heard, along the lines of sin…

— Glendon Swarthout

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great…

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El…

— Debbie Reynolds

I knew San Francisco when it was a wild place during Prohibition. There were more speakeasies than churches, and you could always get a…

— Jackie Coogan

Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our wines are…

— Michael Chiarello

Wherever wine grapes are grown, it is beautiful.

— Margrit Mondavi