Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Wine always inspires sociability.

I am a great believer in research and innovation.

Wine to me is all about sharing.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.