I'm a common-sense kind of guy..

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane..

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing..

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing..

Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the great….

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

Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source of….

A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my ….

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively..

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that….

I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy..

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s..

From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While….

The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I canno….

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for p….

Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health..