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, and the more questions I asked, the further I was pulled into the realms of history and economics, politics, literature, food, community, and all else that affects the way we live. Wine, I found, draws on everything and leads everywhere.
I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other. - Gerald Asher
I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.
- Gerald Asher
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet. - Gerald Asher
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.
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, whatever you're going to do… - Gerald Asher
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, whatever you're going to do…
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 physi… - Gerald Asher
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 physi…
Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduc… - Gerald Asher
Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduc…
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 pass… - Gerald Asher
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 pass…
Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes … - Gerald Asher
Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes …
Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted. - Gerald Asher
Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.
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 uncer… - Gerald Asher
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 uncer…
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