Robert M. Parker, Jr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

“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 pleasure?”

“Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the greatest subject to study. No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.”

“At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.”

“If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.”

“The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.”

“When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).”

“After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island.”

“Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia, Chateauneuf-du-Pape never developed a reputation for quality or achieved the prestige enjoyed by such regions as Burgundy and Bordeaux.”