It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

- 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…

- Gerald Asher