Gerald Asher famous quotes

I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.
-- Gerald Asher

#Wine #Watches #Bottles

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 uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'
-- Gerald Asher

#Wine #Play #Two

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 passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.
-- Gerald Asher

#Real #Wine #Awards

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

#Wine #Needs #Bottles

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 will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.
-- Gerald Asher

#Wine #Eye #Keys

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 deduced from an analysis of the physical elements in the glass. For me, an important part of the pleasure of wine is its reflection of the total environment that produced it. If I find in a wine no hint of where it was grown, no mark of the summer when the fruit ripened, and no indication of the usages common among those who made it, I am frustrated and disappointed. Because that is what a good, honest wine should offer.
-- Gerald Asher

#Summer #Wine #Reflection

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

#Writing #Kind #Conversation

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 with it, it is as it is for a reason.
-- Gerald Asher

#Writing #Wine #Thinking

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.
-- Gerald Asher

#Real #Writing #Wine

Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.

Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.